Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> Returning GUC variable "SHOW ALL" results as a query result has been
> discussed before, and I thought there was agreement that it was a
> desirable backend feature.
So it is, but I had expected it to be implemented by changing the
behavior of SHOW, same as we did for EXPLAIN.
> Is the approach in my patch still too ugly to allow a builtin SRF (set
> the function return type to 0 in pg_proc.h, create a view and fix the
> pg_proc entry during initdb)?
Too ugly for my taste anyway ...
regards, tom lane