"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >>> Based on this email, should we be showing ROLE from SHOW ALL? >> Only if you think we should be showing session_authorization too. >> That was marked "no_show_all" quite a long time ago, and we have >> not got complaints about it... > Hm, but before 8.1 there was no "alter user set <variable> <value>", was > there? So, a automatic way of retrieving all possible variables wasn't > too important - at least not from a gui-tool perspektive.. I don't see the connection offhand ... but ALTER USER SET <variable> has been around since 7.3, so this doesn't seem to support whatever argument you intended to make. regards, tom lane
