Re: SHOW ALL with descriptions

Matthias Schmidt wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> here's a tiny patch showing the description of the backend parameters
> alongside the 'SHOW ALL' Command.
> I'm not quite shure wether this should be the default output or not.
> Probably this needs to be configurable itself.
>
> What do you think?

Good question. psql \dT shows descriptions, but \df does not, only
\df+, so that doesn't give us a pattern.

We could add a VERBOSE option to SHOW ALL to show descriptions, but that
seems like overkill.

I have applied your patch that show descriptions for SHOW ALL, but not
for SHOW varname. That seems like the cleanest solution. I also
updated the documentation to mention SHOW ALL includes descriptions.

Any modification suggestions from the group?

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