Re: vacuum_truncate configuration parameter and isset_offset

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM Nathan Bossart
<nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
> Overall, the biggest reason I didn't proceed with the enum is because it
> felt like it was making it the user's problem.  Rather than just teaching
> our code how to determine if a reloption was explicitly set, we'd be
> introducing unnecessary complexity to the user, or at least we'd be trying
> to closely match the existing functionality in an attempt to hide this
> complexity from them.

+1. Giving the user the ability to set the option to a value called
"unset" doesn't seem right to me.

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