Re: Shouldn't pg_settings.enumvals be array of text?

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>>> Agreed, it can certainly be bettered. text[] seems to be the cleanest,
>>> but then we still have the issue with wide output in psql, no? But
>>> should we really design the view around the single use-case of psql? You
>>> can still just omit that column from the SELECT if you want...
>> Well, if we present as text[] then someone could easily use
>> array_to_string to format the column the other way.  So probably
>> text[] is the right thing.
> 
> Let's have it as text[] and have psql apply array_to_string() over it.

Eh, how can psql do this? You access the view with a simple SELECT *
FROM pg_settings, no?

//Magnus