Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mié ago 10 14:12:49 -0400 2011: > Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > > I was slightly surprised the other day that the SHOW command always > > returns a field of type text even if the underlying parameter has one of > > the other types (int, real, etc.). Is this intentional? Would it be > > worth refining? > > I'm disinclined to mess with it. One thing that couldn't easily be > "cleaned up" is the textual output for nominally-numeric parameters > that have units.
How about having it return a record? We could have the units in a separate column ... and perhaps show the raw value too (I have wished to see the raw value plenty of times). Backwards compatibility is a serious problem though :-) -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
