Alex Hunsaker wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > I am wondering if it's a good idea to hide the redundant entries
> > to reduce clutter in the pg_settings display. (We could do this
> > by adding a "hidden" boolean to struct config_enum_entry.)
> > Thoughts?
>
> +1
>
> > regards, tom lane
>
> Maybe something like the attached patch?
Oops, missed that there was a patch posted already. Looks like the way
to do it (except I'd move the comment :-P) if that's the way we go.
> I looked into just making it a string so we could use parse_bool...
> because backslash_quote seems to be the exception not the rule. But I
> decided having a hidden flag seems more useful anyway...
It used to be a string. We don't want that, because then we can't tell
the client which possible values are available. That's the whole reason
for the creation of the enum type gucs...
//Magnus
