Re: About SET SEARCH_PATH - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: About SET SEARCH_PATH
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Msg-id 5602.1063831232@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to About SET SEARCH_PATH  (Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>)
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Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de> writes:
>> The search path may be altered by a run-time setting.
>> The command to use is SET SEARCH_PATH 'schema'[,'schema']...

> It should be
> SET SEARCH_PATH TO schema[,schema]...

Actually, you can do it either way:

regression=# set search_path TO a,b,c;
regression=# set search_path TO 'a','b','c';

although not

regression=# set search_path TO 'a,b,c';
ERROR:  schema "a,b,c" does not exist

This is mainly for legacy reasons (the grammar involved was originally
used for DateStyle...).  I don't object to documenting primarily the
first form, though.

> (2)
> $PGSQLD/doc/html/sql-set.html

> This page does not mention the SEARCH_PATH variable at all.
> Is this intended?

Yeah; that page only documents SET items that are not in the main list
of run-time-configurable parameters.

            regards, tom lane

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