Re: psql --help=variables missing csv_fieldsep

On 2025-Nov-03, Tom Lane wrote:

> =?utf-8?Q?=C3=81lvaro?= Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de> writes:
> > While messing with the \pset boolean display patch, I noticed that psql
> > --help=variables is missing csv_fieldsep. Is there a reason for this?
>
> But wait ... is it actually a variable? help.c does list it, but
> as a \pset option:
>
> HELP0(" \\pset [NAME [VALUE]] set table output option\n"
> " (border|columns|csv_fieldsep|display_false|display_true|\n"

Yeah, there are two lists: one here in the "\?" output, and another in
the "\? variables" output, which is also `psql --help=variables`. It
lists actual variables but also \pset options and environment variables
psql recognizes. I find this one you quote somewhat unreadable, so I
was going to propose to remove it, and instead direct the user to look
at "\? variables" for the exhaustive list. That one is also a bit
easier to cross-check, I think. (There's also tab-complete.)

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