On 2023-12-21 19:55:51 +0530, Amit Kapila wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 5:05 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > We clearly can't just expose the numerical value for a C enum. So it has to > > be > > converted to something SQL representable. > > > > We can return int2 value from the function pg_get_replication_slots() > and then use that to display a string in the view > pg_replication_slots.
I strongly dislike that pattern. It just leads to complicated views - and doesn't provide a single benefit that I am aware of. It's much bettter to simply populate the text version in pg_get_replication_slots().
