Re: TODO: You can alter it, but you can't view it - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> > While working on some database maintenance, I was just tripped up by the
> > fact that there is no good way to query reloptions for tables. ?By "no good
> > way" I mean "no way which does not involve UNNEST and regexps or procedural
> > code".
> 
> Can you use pg_options_to_table() for your purpose?
> 
> =# CREATE TABLE tbl (i integer) with (fillfactor = 70);
> =# SELECT (pg_options_to_table(reloptions)).* FROM pg_class WHERE oid
> = 'tbl'::regclass;
>  option_name | option_value
> -------------+--------------
>  fillfactor  | 70

Right now pg_options_to_table() is not documented.  Should it be?

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