> On 11 Feb 2025, at 19:11, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought about this one a bit, and I actually came to the opposite
> conclusion. IMHO it's reasonably obvious that an empty string means that
> the file isn't loaded, so there's not much point in stating it in the GUC
> description. Instead, I think we should follow the
> archive_command/archive_library example and use this space _only_ as a
> cross-reference to each other. There's certainly some nuances missed with
> this strategy, but that's not unique to this GUC.
I don't necessarily disagree with this, but the proposed wording makes it sound
sort of like users have to select one or the other. Could it be softened a
little like perhaps "An empty string disables, \"ssl_crl_foo\" is still used"?
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Daniel Gustafsson