Re: boolean and bool in documentation

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 7:31 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> FWIW, I'm not excited about this.  We accept "bool" and "boolean"
> interchangeably, and it does not seem like an improvement for the
> docs to use only one form.  By that argument, somebody should go
> through the docs and nuke every usage of "::" in favor of
> SQL-standard CAST(...) notation, every usage of "float8"
> in favor of DOUBLE PRECISION, every usage of "timestamptz" in
> favor of the long form, etc etc.

I'm not terribly excited about it either, but mostly because it seems
like a lot of churn for a minimal gain, and it'll be consistent for
about 6 months before somebody re-introduces a conflicting usage.  I
do not, on the other hand, believe that there's no point in being
consistent about anything unless we're consistent about everything;
that's a straw man.

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