Re: Add support for logging the current role

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Kevin Grittner
>> > Should we abbreviate something there?  max_pred_locks_per_tran,
>> > maybe?
>>
>> If we're going to abbreviate transaction, I'd vote for txn over tran,
>> but I think Stephen's point that this is already a lost cause may have
>> some validity.  Not sure what other people think.
>
> There's lots of other GUCs with "transaction" spelled out in them.. :/
>
> Another option, which I don't like, would be to use 'default' by
> 'default', and build the list on the fly every time if that's what it
> is..  That would give no insight into what the list of fields is for
> someone though, they'd have to go back to the documentation to figure
> it out, and that sucks..

Yeah. The root cause of this problem is that the way psql handles
tabular output with a few very wide rows stinks.

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