On Dec 28, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I'm still wondering what's the actual use-case for exposing this inside
> SQL. Those with a legitimate need-to-know can look at the slave
> server's config files, no?
SQL access is frequently more convenient, though. Although maybe now that we've made recovery.conf use the GUC lexer
weoughta continue in that vein and expose those parameters as PGC_INTERNAL GUCs rather than inventing a new function
forit...
...Robert