Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Um, other than "show work_mem" or "select from pg_settings"?
>
> The fact is that you cannot know the active value anyway without
> checking, because what you did with SET PERMANENT might be overridden
> in various session-local ways.  The proposal for hand-edited versus
> machine-edited files just adds one more layer of possible overrides
> to the existing half-dozen layers, all of which are widely considered
> features not bugs.  So I see no merit in your argument.

I understand that. I just think there are already too many sources for
GUCs and would welcome that there's a single possible source file with a
complete remote editing feature.

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Dimitri Fontaine
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