Re: How to I select value of GUC that has - in its name?

From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to I select value of GUC that has - in its name?
Date: 2021-02-09 15:45:03
Message-ID: 20210209154502.GA2409@depesz.com
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On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 07:41:02AM -0800, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> The only way I found so far is:
> select setconfig[array_position(setconfig, 'custom.bad-guc=1a')] from
> pg_db_role_setting where setrole = 'aklaver'::regrole;

Yeah, but this will require some parsing if I don't know what the value
is.
Of course, it's not impossible, I can:
with x as (
select unnest(setconfig) as u
from pg_db_role_setting
where setrole = 'depesz'::regrole
)
select regexp_replace(u, '^[^=]*=', '') from x where u like 'custom.bad-guc=%';

but I find it curious that I can set the guc using normal-ish SET, but
can't get it using SHOW or even select current_setting()

depesz

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