Re: [GENERAL] Missing variable "role" in "pg_settings"? - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Missing variable "role" in "pg_settings"?
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Msg-id 26127.1133847725@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Missing variable "role" in "pg_settings"?  ("Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org>)
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"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Based on this email, should we be showing ROLE from SHOW ALL?
>> Only if you think we should be showing session_authorization too.
>> That was marked "no_show_all" quite a long time ago, and we have
>> not got complaints about it...

> Hm, but before 8.1 there was no "alter user set <variable> <value>", was
> there? So, a automatic way of retrieving all possible variables wasn't
> too important - at least not from a gui-tool perspektive..

I don't see the connection offhand ... but ALTER USER SET <variable>
has been around since 7.3, so this doesn't seem to support whatever
argument you intended to make.

            regards, tom lane

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