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From: Joe Conway <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Mark Dilger <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: How about a psql backslash command to show GUCs?
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 14:26:36 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On 4/6/22 13:58, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2022-Apr-06, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
>> However, I very often find myself resorting to the much more tedious
>> 
>> select * from pg_settings where name like '%foo%';
>> 
>> when I want to see some related parameters, or when I'm a bit
>> fuzzy on the exact name of the parameter.
> 
> Been there many times, so +1 for the general idea.
> 
>> In the discussion about adding privileges for GUCs [1], there
>> was a proposal to add a new psql backslash command to show GUCs,
>> which could reduce this problem to something like
>> 
>> \dcp *foo*
> 
> +1.  As for command name, I like \show as proposed by Pavel.

+1

I'd love something for the same reasons.

No as sure about \show though. That seems like it could be confused with 
showing other stuff. Maybe consistent with \sf[+] and \sv[+] we could 
add \sc[+]?

Joe

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