Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> If that actually worked, it'd be one thing, but it doesn't work and
>> isn't going to do so in 8.2. So I think people will indeed be trying
>> to use setting || unit for display purposes. In any case "8kB" isn't
>> a valid unit.
> I thought we set SHOW ALL aside for display purposes and pg_settings for
> processing purposes?
Right, but it's difficult to get at the result of SHOW from SQL.
regards, tom lane