From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: David Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Suggest adding reference to pg_db_role_setting in chapter 18; expand catalog page
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:30:46 -0500
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On 1/17/15 1:08 AM, David Johnston wrote:
> ​Attached is a patch that provides a link to the catalog page for
> pg_db_role_settings from config.sgml. It also updates said catalog page
> to mention that the data from this catalog is available via psql \drds
> and also provides a query that will explode the setconfig column into
> its component parts - which \drds does not do.
I don't like different parts of the system fighting each other about
what is better. If the exploded view is better, then we should change
\drds to show it.
> I am imagine there might be a reason that the catalog pages do not
> reference the relevant psql meta-commands, or provide human-friendly
> examples, but I cannot think of what that might be and so here I provide.
The catalog descriptions are in the "internals" part, so you'd only
arrive there if you know what you are doing. If you want to learn about
user-facing tools such as psql or pgadmin, they have their own
documentation.
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