Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> So, I think the answer is that we have the current behavior because of
> backward compatibility. Perhaps we should be more strict in
> ParseVariableBool(), perhaps only allowing true/false and on/off.

If we're going to change it, we should make it match GUC's parse_bool,
which has had some actual thought put into it.

regards, tom lane

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