Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

Good idea. Do I copy the C code into /psql or somehow share the
function?

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