Re: [HACKERS] logical replication syntax (was DROP SUBSCRIPTION,query cancellations and slot handling) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2 May 2017 at 12:55, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Petr Jelinek
> <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> DROP SUBSCRIPTION mysub NODROP SLOT;
>
> I'm pretty uninspired by this choice of syntax.  Logical replication
> seems to have added a whole bunch of syntax that involves prefixing
> words with "no".  In various places, there's NODROP, NOREFRESH, NOCOPY
> DATA, NOCONNECT, and NOPUBLISH.  But "NO" is not an English prefix,
> and there's no precedent of which I'm aware for such SQL syntax.  In
> most places, we've chosen to name the option and then the user set it
> to "on" or "off".  So for example you type EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, TIMING
> OFF) or EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, TIMING FALSE), not EXPLAIN (ANALYZE,
> NOTIMING).  I think most of the logical replication stuff could have
> been done this way pretty easily, but for some reason it picked a
> completely different approach.

+1 for not upsetting my OCD.

Thom