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Re: Add \pset options for boolean value display

David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> — 2025-11-03T17:16:30Z

On Monday, November 3, 2025, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de> wrote:

> On 2025-Oct-21, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On 2025-Oct-20, David G. Johnston wrote:
> > > Thank you.  Seems good from a quick read.  I’m regretting the choice
> of the
> > > display_ prefix; is there any technical limitation or other opposition
> to
> > > using just true and false?
> > >
> > > \pset true ‘true’
> > > \pset false ‘false’
>
> > Uhm.  I don't know.  [...]  I'll gladly take a vote.
>
> I got zero votes and lots of digression, so I have pushed with your
> original choice of "display_true" and "display_false".  The "true" and
> "false" variable names sound too generic and I think they're more likely
> to cause confusion.  I think "null" is not a great name either, but it's
> been there since forever so I'm not going to propose changing it.


Thank you.

David J.