Re: why cannot UNION both SELECT and SHOW?

Konstantin Izmailov  writes:

> Is it possible instead of executing following two statements:
> ? SHOW search_path; SELECT version();
> to execute just one statement returning both search_path and version?
>
> I'm using Postgres 9.0 and need the result either as two tuples or two fields...
>
> Could you suggest how to rewrite the two statements?



foo=# select current_setting('search_path'), version();
 current_setting |                                                     version                                                     
-----------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 "$user",public  | PostgreSQL 9.0.3 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5) 4.4.5, 64-bit
(1 row)

>
> Thx
>

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