Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
>
> > My main problem with SHOW as it is in 8.1 is that the output is so wide
> > that it's very hard to read the output.
> >
> > Is there any use for SHOW except in interactive psql sessions?
There certainly is. Imagine querying for timezone. Also remember that
pgadmin is a client application that is _not_ psql.
> Nothing that can't be done by querying pg_settings.
True, so we have pg_settings and SHOW. I see no reason for a third,
\show.
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