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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Chao Li <[email protected]>
To: Postgres hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: tablecmds: clarify recurse vs recusing
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:50:01 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoWx2n9E6_zxPbqwMpaPuC1C_p4b3y635SjiDuCPSVm8GBjsA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 19.01.26 08:14, Chao Li wrote:
> Many ALTER TABLE-related functions take two boolean parameters, 
> "recurse" and "recursing", whose names are easy to confuse.

I'm not bothered by this.

> To reduce this confusion, I’m proposing to rename "recurse" to 
> "no_only", which more directly reflects its meaning.

This seems worse.  Especially since no_only is almost a double negative.

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