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To: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
To: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Improve documentation regarding custom settings, placeholders, and the administrative functions
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 10:36:20 +0800
Message-ID: <6ffeeead-0b17-487d-860b-11cc8f18a3aa@Spark> (raw)
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On Oct 20, 2024 at 04:12 +0800, David G. Johnston <[email protected]>, wrote:
>
> Mostly I'm pointing out the fact that one can never take the null value to be the actual value of a setting. In terms of current_setting this then establishes the fact that the null value it may return is an error-handling alternative only and not something to be relied upon as being an actual value of the setting.
> - Returns the current value of the+ Returns the current non-null value of the setting <parameter>setting_name</parameter>. If there is no such setting, <function>current_setting</function> throws an error unless <parameter>missing_ok</parameter> is supplied and
Hi,
current_setting() could return NULL when missing_ok is passed, so is it right to say: Returns the current non-null value of the setting <parameter>setting_name</parameter>?
As the doc is for function of current_setting(), and it could return NULL actually.
gpadmin=# \pset null NULL
Null display is "NULL".
gpadmin=# select current_setting('pg_xmen', true);
current_setting
-----------------
NULL
(1 row)
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