Re: How about a psql backslash command to show GUCs? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jonathan S. Katz
Subject Re: How about a psql backslash command to show GUCs?
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Msg-id 256f136e-d005-867a-f70a-441f5594313e@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: How about a psql backslash command to show GUCs?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 6/7/22 1:02 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> In any case, I expect that we'd apply this patch only to HEAD, which
> means that when using psql's \dconfig against a pre-v15 server,
> you'd still see these settings that we're trying to hide.
> That doesn't bother me too much, but maybe some would find it
> confusing.

Well, "\dconfig" is a v15 feature, and though it's in the client, the 
best compatibility for it will be with v15. I think it's OK to have the 
behavior different in v15 vs. older versions.

Jonathan

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