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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Peter Smith <[email protected]>
Cc: Zheng Li <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: pub/sub - specifying optional parameters without values.
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:55:43 -0500
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Peter Smith <[email protected]> writes:
> I'd forgotten about the 'streaming' option -- AFAIK this was
> previously a boolean parameter and so its [= value] part can also be
> omitted. However, in PG16 streaming became an enum type
> (on/off/parallel), and the value can still be omitted but that is not
> really being covered by the new generic text note about booleans added
> by yesterday's patch.

Hmph.  I generally think that options defined like this (it's a boolean,
except it isn't) are a bad idea, and would prefer to see that API
rethought while we still can.

			regards, tom lane






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