Re: Turning recovery.conf into GUCs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Turning recovery.conf into GUCs
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Msg-id 30569.1384917859@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Turning recovery.conf into GUCs  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Turning recovery.conf into GUCs
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Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2013-11-19 22:09:48 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>> * Why did you change some of the recovery gucs to lowercase names, but
>>> left out XLogRestoreCommand?

>> This was part of the former patch, perhaps you are right and keeping
>> the names as close as possible to the old ones would make sense to
>> facilitate maintenance across versions.

> I think lowercase is slightly more consistent with the majority of the
> other GUCs, but if you change it you should change all the new GUC variables.

Please *don't* create any more mixed-case GUC names.  The spelling of
TimeZone and the one or two other historical exceptions was a very
unfortunate thing; it's confused more people than it's helped.
Put in some underscores if you feel a need for word boundaries.
        regards, tom lane



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