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Re: Improve documentation regarding custom settings, placeholders, and the administrative functions

David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>

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From: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
To: Zhang Mingli <zmlpostgres@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-02-27T18:26:37Z
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On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM Zhang Mingli <zmlpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 6, 2025 at 10:49 +0800, David G. Johnston <
> david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, wrote:
>
>
> Yes, and when it does it is doing so in lieu of an error, and thus it is
> not returning the value of the setting.  It does not mean the value taken
> on by the named parameter is NULL, which is not possible. i.e., SHOW will
> never produce NULL.
>
> Hi,
>
> OK, LGTM.
>
>
Thank you for the review.  If you would like to add yourself as the
reviewer and mark this ready to commit here is the commitfest entry.

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/5548/

David J.

Commits

  1. docs: Clarify that NULL arg to set_config() means reset to default