Tom Lane wrote:
> That seems OK for SHOW, which is mainly intended for human
> consumption, but what will you do with pg_settings?  For programmatic
> use I think we want more predictable behavior.

I'd think that a program would not care.  Or do you want a units-free 
display that can be parsed as integer?

Do we want to introduce a difference between pg_settings and SHOW ALL?  
(Is there one already?)

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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