On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 09:46:52PM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> I agree for names with underscores in them. But I think that quoting
> is necessary for names like "timezone" or "datestyle" that might be
> mistaken for normal words. My personal preference is to always quote
> GUC names, but I think it is OK not to quote GOCs whose name are
> clearly not natural language words.
+1, IMHO quoting GUC names makes it abundantly clear that they are special
identifiers. In de4d456, we quoted the role names in a bunch of messages.
We didn't quote the attribute/option names, but those are in all-caps, so
they already stand out nicely.
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