Re: Idea about better configuration options for sort memory

Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-02-02T04:26:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> With this approach, old GUC names would be recognized in SHOW and SET
> commands, as well as the other ways you can set a variable by name
> (postgresql.conf, ALTER USER SET, etc).  But only the new names would
> appear in SHOW ALL or the pg_settings view.  Does that seem OK?
> 

Seems OK to me, in fact maybe preferred. But I wonder if we should emit 
a NOTICE when old names are used with SHOW and SET commands?

Joe