Re: BUG #5656: parameter 'client_min_messages' accept values not listed in enumvals

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, thommy <der(dot)thommy(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5656: parameter 'client_min_messages' accept values not listed in enumvals
Date: 2010-09-14 23:34:24
Message-ID: 20514.1284507264@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane escreveu:
>> ISTM your
>> argument can be reduced to "there should be no hidden values ever", but
>> I doubt we're going to buy that.

> No, the "hidden values" has their use case (hiding legal values that we don't
> want to expose, for example, true/false, 0/1, yes/no).

Right ... that's exactly what these are, IMO.

regards, tom lane

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