Re: [GENERAL] Why some GUC parameter names are not lowercased

2012-10-30 Thread Tom Lane
Gurjeet Singh writes: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Gurjeet Singh writes: >>> Is there a reason why Postgres chose to not use all lowercase characters >>> for these parameters' names. >> It's historical, for sure. I think we've discussed changing them and >> decided it

Re: [GENERAL] Why some GUC parameter names are not lowercased

2012-10-30 Thread Gurjeet Singh
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Gurjeet Singh writes: > > Is there a reason why Postgres chose to not use all lowercase characters > > for these parameters' names. > > DateStyle > > IntervalStyle > > TimeZone > > It's historical, for sure. I think we've discussed changing

Re: [GENERAL] Why some GUC parameter names are not lowercased

2012-10-30 Thread Tom Lane
Gurjeet Singh writes: > Is there a reason why Postgres chose to not use all lowercase characters > for these parameters' names. > DateStyle > IntervalStyle > TimeZone It's historical, for sure. I think we've discussed changing them and decided it would be more likely to break things than impr