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Subject: Re: tablecmds: clarify recurse vs recusing
To: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@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.