On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:33:55AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I count about 65 variables that SHOW shows that are missing from > > pgsql_variables in tab-complete.c. Does the list intentionally > > omit certain variables? > > It's intentional that the tab completion not list every single variable; > I think if it did, it would be less useful not more so. However the > decisions about which to omit have been less consistent than they > perhaps should be, and I'm sure there were some omitted purely through > oversight. It would be good to go through the whole list and see > exactly what's missing or superfluous.
Here's the list I came up with -- variables that SHOW shows that aren't in psql's completion list. archive_command authentication_timeout autovacuum autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor autovacuum_analyze_threshold autovacuum_naptime autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor autovacuum_vacuum_threshold bgwriter_all_maxpages bgwriter_all_percent bgwriter_delay bgwriter_lru_maxpages bgwriter_lru_percent block_size bonjour_name check_function_bodies checkpoint_segments checkpoint_timeout checkpoint_warning config_file custom_variable_classes data_directory db_user_namespace escape_string_warning external_pid_file full_page_writes hba_file ident_file integer_datetimes krb_caseins_users krb_server_hostname krb_server_keyfile krb_srvname lc_collate lc_ctype listen_addresses log_connections log_directory log_disconnections log_filename log_hostname log_line_prefix log_rotation_age log_rotation_size log_truncate_on_rotation max_function_args max_identifier_length max_index_keys max_prepared_transactions pre_auth_delay preload_libraries redirect_stderr server_version silent_mode standard_compliant_strings transaction_isolation transaction_read_only vacuum_cost_delay vacuum_cost_limit vacuum_cost_page_dirty vacuum_cost_page_hit vacuum_cost_page_miss zero_damaged_pages -- Michael Fuhr ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly