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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Smith <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: GUC names in messages
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 01:35:44 -0500
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Laurenz Albe <[email protected]> writes:
> On Mon, 2023-11-27 at 13:41 +1100, Peter Smith wrote:
>> In the documentation and in the guc_tables.c they are all described in
>> MixedCase (e.g. "DateStyle" instead of "datestyle"), so I felt the
>> messages should use the same case the documentation, which is why I
>> changed all the ones you are referring to.

> I agree with that decision; we should use mixed case for these parameters.
> Otherwise we might get complaints that the following query does not return
> any results:
>   SELECT * FROM pg_settings WHERE name = 'timezone';

Yeah.  Like Michael upthread, I've wondered occasionally about changing
these names to all-lower-case.  It'd surely be nicer if we'd done it
like that to begin with.  But I can't convince myself that the ensuing
user pain would be justified.

			regards, tom lane

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