Re: booleans in recovery.conf

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 19:43 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Is there a reason that recovery.conf uses true/false, while
> > postgresql.conf uses on/off?
> >
> > #recovery_target_inclusive = 'true' # 'true' or 'false'
> >
> > or are these settings more boolean for some reason?
>
> The code accepts any of on|off|true|false and uses the same code as the
> postgresql.conf for parsing that.
>
> I've changed the standby_mode to on|off as per the docs. I left the
> above parameter because true|false reads better.

Agreed. I also applied the attached change so defaults are listed and
example values only appear as comments in the file. This makes the file
match postgresql.conf in style.

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