Re: How about a psql backslash command to show GUCs?

[Mark Dilger]

> On Apr 7, 2022, at 6:21 AM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote:
> 
> \dconf seems fine to me

We have too many synonyms for configuration parameters.  "config", "guc", 
"parameter", and "setting" are already in use.  I thought we agreed on the 
other thread that "setting" means the value, and "parameter" is the thing being 
set.  It's true that "config" refers to parameters in the name of 
pg_catalog.set_config, which is a pretty strong precedent, but sadly "config" 
also refers to configuration files, the build configuration (as in the 
"pg_config" tool), text search configuration, etc.

While grep'ing through doc/src/sgml, I see no instances of "conf" ever 
referring to configuration parameters.  It only ever refers to configuration 
files.  I'd prefer not adding it to the list of synonyms.

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