Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes: > Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mié ago 10 14:12:49 -0400 2011: >> Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: >>> I was slightly surprised the other day that the SHOW command always >>> returns a field of type text even if the underlying parameter has one of >>> the other types (int, real, etc.). Is this intentional? Would it be >>> worth refining?
>> I'm disinclined to mess with it. One thing that couldn't easily be >> "cleaned up" is the textual output for nominally-numeric parameters >> that have units. > How about having it return a record? I think that's already covered by the pg_settings view. The question is whether plain SHOW ought to change. I don't see the point. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers