Tom Lane wrote:
> pg_settings is not a system catalog, so I don't think it belongs in the
> system catalogs chapter. In fact it doesn't belong anywhere in the
> Developer's Guide, since it's a user-oriented view.
>
> I'm not sure where it *does* belong though :-(. Right at the moment we
> have no documentation of any of the predefined system views, except for
> the ones that fit into the "monitoring" chapter of the Admin Guide.
>
> I think maybe we ought to make a new chapter for system views ... but
> where to put it? User's Guide maybe?
It didn't seem to fit, but as you point out, there was no place else
even close. I'll try to come up with something and submit another patch.
Joe