On 4/6/22 13:58, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
On 2022-Apr-06, Tom Lane wrote:
However, I very often find myself resorting to the much more tedious
select * from pg_settings where name like '%foo%';
when I want to see some related parameters, or when I'm a bit
fuzzy on the exact name of the parameter.
Been there many times, so +1 for the general idea.
In the discussion about adding privileges for GUCs [1], there
was a proposal to add a new psql backslash command to show GUCs,
which could reduce this problem to something like
\dcp *foo*
+1. As for command name, I like \show as proposed by Pavel.
+1
I'd love something for the same reasons.
No as sure about \show though. That seems like it could be confused with
showing other stuff. Maybe consistent with \sf[+] and \sv[+] we could
add \sc[+]?
Joe
