Laurenz Albe <laurenz.a...@cybertec.at> writes: > On Mon, 2023-11-27 at 13:41 +1100, Peter Smith wrote: >> In the documentation and in the guc_tables.c they are all described in >> MixedCase (e.g. "DateStyle" instead of "datestyle"), so I felt the >> messages should use the same case the documentation, which is why I >> changed all the ones you are referring to.
> I agree with that decision; we should use mixed case for these parameters. > Otherwise we might get complaints that the following query does not return > any results: > SELECT * FROM pg_settings WHERE name = 'timezone'; Yeah. Like Michael upthread, I've wondered occasionally about changing these names to all-lower-case. It'd surely be nicer if we'd done it like that to begin with. But I can't convince myself that the ensuing user pain would be justified. regards, tom lane