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Re: explain plans with information about (modified) gucs

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-01-02T15:20:06Z
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On 14/12/2018 12:41, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> 1) names of the options
> 
> I'm not particularly happy with calling the option "gucs" - it's an
> acronym and many users have little idea what GUC stands for. So I think
> a better name would be desirable, but I'm not sure what would that be.
> Options? Parameters?

"settings"

(see pg_settings, SET)

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Commits

  1. Add SETTINGS option to EXPLAIN, to print modified settings.

  2. Switch some palloc/memset calls to palloc0