On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 11:41:51PM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: >> On 11 Feb 2025, at 19:11, Nathan Bossart <nathandboss...@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"?
Hm. I'm starting to lean towards considering these as too complicated to include in the GUC description. -- nathan
