Tom Lane wrote:
> The impression I had was that Stephen was thinking of actually setting
> min_val to 1 (or whatever) and handling zero or -1 in some out-of-band
> fashion, perhaps by adding GUC flag bits showing those as allowable
> special cases. I'm not sure how we would display such a state of affairs
> in pg_settings, but other than that it doesn't sound implausible.
I would think that if we're going to have "out of band" values, we
should just use "off", not 0 or -1.
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