On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurj...@gmail.com> 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 improve matters. > > In particular, modern style would probably be more like "date_style" > etc, but we definitely could not insert underscores without breaking > applications all over the place. So the best we could do is just > smash to lowercase, eg "datestyle", which isn't really a readability > improvement. And there would still be some risk of breaking > applications that are expecting these names to print a particular way. > Can we develop aliases to these parameters, that adhere to the standard. Next release we can mark the old ones as deprecated and a few releases down the line completely remove the non-stsandard names and rest easy. Would be happy to contribute such a patch. I think it'd be trivial. -- Gurjeet Singh http://gurjeet.singh.im/
