Re: minor documentation improvements - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: minor documentation improvements
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Msg-id 200309052118.h85LIP419981@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: minor documentation improvements  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Huh?  We have been uppercasing GUC variable names in most places
> > already.
>
> Currently, the documentation contains about 2 GUC variable names in upper
> case, the rest is lower case.  (The exception are the list headings in the
> main description in runtime.sgml, which are all upper case.  That is a bit
> inconsistent, but I think it's OK, because here they sort of serve as
> section titles.)  Also note that postgresql.conf, command-line option
> equivalents, and SET commands all tend to use them in lower case, so that
> seems like the direction to go.

Oh, OK, got it.

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