Re: Shouldn't pg_settings.enumvals be array of text? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> > Agreed, it can certainly be bettered. text[] seems to be the cleanest,
> > but then we still have the issue with wide output in psql, no? But
> > should we really design the view around the single use-case of psql? You
> > can still just omit that column from the SELECT if you want...
> 
> Well, if we present as text[] then someone could easily use
> array_to_string to format the column the other way.  So probably
> text[] is the right thing.

Let's have it as text[] and have psql apply array_to_string() over it.

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