Re: TODO: You can alter it, but you can't view it

Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>

From: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-09-27T05:30:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> While working on some database maintenance, I was just tripped up by the
> fact that there is no good way to query reloptions for tables.  By "no good
> way" I mean "no way which does not involve UNNEST and regexps or procedural
> code".

Can you use pg_options_to_table() for your purpose?

=# CREATE TABLE tbl (i integer) with (fillfactor = 70);
=# SELECT (pg_options_to_table(reloptions)).* FROM pg_class WHERE oid
= 'tbl'::regclass;
 option_name | option_value
-------------+--------------
 fillfactor  | 70

-- 
Itagaki Takahiro