Re: How about a psql backslash command to show GUCs?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Cc: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-04-12T15:19:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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"Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org> writes:
> On 4/11/22 4:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> This idea does somewhat address my unhappiness upthread about printing
>> values with source = 'internal', but I see that it gets confused by
>> some GUCs with custom show hooks, like unix_socket_permissions.
>> Maybe it needs to be "source != 'default' AND setting != boot_val"?

> Running through a few GUCs, that seems reasonable. Happy to test the 
> patch out prior to commit to see if it renders better.

It'd just look like this, I think.  I see from looking at guc.c that
boot_val can be NULL, so we'd better use IS DISTINCT FROM.

			regards, tom lane

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  1. Be more careful about GucSource for internally-driven GUC settings.

  2. Fix case sensitivity in psql's tab completion for GUC names.

  3. Further tweak the default behavior of psql's \dconfig.

  4. Tweak the default behavior of psql's \dconfig.

  5. psql: add \dconfig command to show server's configuration parameters.

  6. Allow granting SET and ALTER SYSTEM privileges on GUC parameters.