From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
To: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Cc: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Subject: psql --help=variables missing csv_fieldsep
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 18:44:31 +0100
Message-ID: <202511031738.eqaeaedpx5cr@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
While messing with the \pset boolean display patch, I noticed that psql
--help=variables is missing csv_fieldsep. Is there a reason for this?
It appears to be an omission of commit aa2ba50c2c13 -- accidental?
The attached patch adds it.
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Attachments:0001-Have-psql-s-variables-show-csv_fieldsep.patch (text/x-diff, 919B) download
From 2c452061b1e1388a7127fb7fd407c949aa6bec20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=81lvaro=20Herrera?= <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2025 18:37:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Have psql's "\? variables" show csv_fieldsep
The omission is unexplained.
---
src/bin/psql/help.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/help.c b/src/bin/psql/help.cindex 6ae1a9940de..b635aa7dc57 100644--- a/src/bin/psql/help.c+++ b/src/bin/psql/help.c@@ -480,6 +480,9 @@ helpVariables(unsigned short int pager)
" border style (number)\n");
HELP0(" columns\n"
" target width for the wrapped format\n");
+ HELPN(" csv_fieldsep\n"+ " field separator to be used in CSV output format (default \"%c\")\n",+ DEFAULT_CSV_FIELD_SEP);
HELP0(" display_false\n"
" set the string to be printed in place of a boolean 'false'\n");
HELP0(" display_true\n"
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2.47.3
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