Re: Docs: Always use true|false instead of sometimes on|off for the subscription options

David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
To: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-05-16T12:42:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, 16 May 2024 at 19:05, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 3:11 PM David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If you want to do this, what's the reason to limit it to just this one
> > page of the docs?
>
> Yeah, I had a vested interest in this one place because I've been
> reviewing the other thread [1] that was mentioned above. If that other
> thread chooses "true|false" then putting "true|false" adjacent to
> another "on|off" will look silly.

OK, looking a bit further I see this option is new to v17.  After a
bit more study of the sgml, I agree that it's worth changing this.

I've pushed your patch.

David



Commits

  1. Doc: use true|false rather than on|off for "failover" option