On 11/1/17 14:02, Nico Williams wrote:
> There already _is_ a two-argument form of current_setting() that yours
> somewhat conflicts with:
>
> current_setting(setting_name [, missing_ok ])
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-admin.html
>
> I often use
>
> coalesce(current_setting(setting_name, true), default_value_here)
>
> as an implementation of current_setting() with a default value.
That appears to address this use case then. Do we need the new proposed
variant still?
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