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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: How about a psql backslash command to show GUCs?
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Msg-id 495595.1649704355@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: How about a psql backslash command to show GUCs?  ("Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: How about a psql backslash command to show GUCs?  ("Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>)
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"Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org> writes:
> On 4/9/22 12:27 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Sure, but then you do "\dconfig *".  With there being several hundred
>> GUCs (and no doubt more coming), I'm not sure that "show me every GUC"
>> is a common use-case at all, let alone so common as to deserve being
>> the default behavior.
>> 
>> One thing we could perhaps do to reduce confusion is to change the
>> table heading when doing this, say from "List of configuration parameters"
>> to "List of non-default configuration parameters".

> Reasonable points. I don't have any objections to this proposal.

Hearing no further comments, done like that.

            regards, tom lane



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