Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> I was slightly surprised the other day that the SHOW command always
> returns a field of type text even if the underlying parameter has one of
> the other types (int, real, etc.). Is this intentional? Would it be
> worth refining?
I'm disinclined to mess with it. One thing that couldn't easily be
"cleaned up" is the textual output for nominally-numeric parameters
that have units.
regards, tom lane
