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From Gurjeet Singh
Subject Why some GUC parameter names are not lowercased
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Responses Re: Why some GUC parameter names are not lowercased  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Is there a reason why Postgres chose to not use all lowercase characters for these parameters' names.

postgres=# select name from pg_settings where name <> lower(name);
     name     
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(3 rows)

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