fOn Sat, May 14, 2022 at 05:21:58PM +0200, Álvaro Herrera wrote: > I pushed the other suggested bits. > > On 2022-May-13, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 10:06:57AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > > > I don't think this is an improvement, mainly for the reason David > > > mentions: why wouldn't you need a similar statement on every single > > > one of our program man pages? > > > > I think the confusion is that while the option arguments are > > case-sensitive, many of the values are typically used as all upper-case, > > and I think any doc mention would have to include that: > > > > Note that valid --auth option values are all lower case, even > > for authentication types that typically appear as all upper case, > > e.g., "LDAP". > > Yeah, that was my initial thought too. The case-sensitivity is a > consideration for other things too (such as locale or encoding names), > but for those we do match the operating system name exactly, rather than > using our own lower-case version of it, which nobody else uses. > > So really the point is not about the fact that it is case sensitive as > that the case of our name doesn't match the usual one. Maybe the note > should be "Note that authentication types are all lower case, [even for > ...]" or something like that.
Agreed. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Indecision is a decision. Inaction is an action. Mark Batterson
