At Tue, 21 May 2019 14:31:32 +0900, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote in <20190521053132.GG1921@paquier.xyz>
> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 09:55:59AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > Well, it's confusing that we're not consistent about which spellings
> > are accepted. The GUC system accepts true/false, on/off, and 0/1, so
> > it seems reasonable to me to standardize on that treatment across the
> > board. That's not necessarily something we have to do for v12, but
> > longer-term, consistency is of value.
>
> +1.
>
> Note: boolean GUCs accept a bit more: yes, no, tr, fa, and their upper
> case flavors, etc. These are everything parse_bool():bool.c accepts
> as valid values.
Yeah, I agree for longer-term. The opinion was short-term
consideration on v12. We would be able to achieve full
unification on sub-applications in v13 in that direction. (But I
don't think it's good that apps pass-through options then server
checkes them..)
regards.
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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center