Re: pgsql/ oc/src/sgml/release.sgml rc/backend/com ...

Tom Lane wrote:
> Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
> Okay, so the question is what tablefunc wants to do. I'd guess it
> wants to duplicate the set of info returned by SHOW ALL.

Yes, I think that makes sense.

> I put in GUC_NO_SHOW_ALL when I was hacking on GUC a few months ago
> to make it able to implement the last few SET variables that had
> one-of-a-kind behavior. One of those one-of-a-kind behaviors was that
> some of them didn't show up in SHOW ALL. I suppose this is arguably
> a bug and not really behavior we want to preserve --- although SHOW SEED
> will *never* return anything useful and so it's not clear why SHOW ALL
> should bother to show it.
>
> If NO_SHOW_ALL bothers you, feel free to put its removal up to a
> pghackers vote. I'm not wedded to it.

It doesn't really bother me ;). I just didn't understand why it existed.

I do think that it is conceivable that we want to be able to suppress
the examination of some settings, but I would think that would apply to
SHOW just the same as SHOW ALL. It seems that anything I can SHOW should
be there when I do SHOW ALL. Maybe it should be GUC_NO_SHOW and apply to
both?

Joe