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Subject: Docs incorrectly claiming equivalence between show and pg_settings
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:54:31 +0100
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Hi!
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/sql-show.html claims:
"Also, the pg_settings system view produces the same information."
This is not entirely correct. On IRC I was told, that the view only contains
settings set from C, not user defined settings defined by the SET command:
timemngt=# set my.test = 'test';
SET
timemngt=# show my.test;
┌─────────┐
│ my.test │
├─────────┤
│ test │
└─────────┘
(1 row)
timemngt=# select * from pg_settings where name = 'my.test';
timemngt=#
Including this rather obscure bit of information might help another user down
the road.
Thanks,
Stefan Seifert
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