Re: Better visualization of default values

From: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br>
Cc: Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Better visualization of default values
Date: 2025-02-06 15:31:27
Message-ID: CAKAnmm+JYsG+Ktt0AUE7GvvNKnaLezVKLYP2MLPc15n8k=uv2A@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br> wrote:

> And obviously, if you don't know the purpose of that GUC, you'll have to
> read the entire paragraph to understand it.
> Objective here is to those ones who know what it is, but don't
> remember its default.
>

That seems a somewhat arbitrary goal for us to optimize for. I just read
through https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-query.html
and while perhaps some of the defaults could be slightly more prominent,
none of them took more than a second of brain-cpu-power to find. The only
one that threw me off was join_collapse_limit, which really should just
state the eight. So for me a -1 for major changes, but a weak +1 to
improving some individual items.

Cheers,
Greg

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