On 2019-Jan-14, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> The one slightly annoying issue is that currently all the options are
> formatted as text, including e.g. cpu_tuple_cost. That's because the GUC
> options may have show hook, so I can't access the value directly (not
> sure if there's an option around it).
I think the problem is that you'd have to know how to print the value,
which can be in one of several different C types. You'd have to grow
some more infrastructure in the GUC tables, I think, and that doesn't
seem worth the trouble. Printing as text seems enough.
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