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

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