=?utf-8?Q?=C3=81lvaro?= Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de> writes:
> On 2025-Nov-03, Tom Lane wrote:
>> But wait ... is it actually a variable? help.c does list it, but
>> as a \pset option:
> Yeah, there are two lists: one here in the "\?" output, and another in
> the "\? variables" output, which is also `psql --help=variables`. It
> lists actual variables but also \pset options and environment variables
> psql recognizes.
Huh. I would not have called \pset options variables, but I guess
somebody thought it made sense.
> I find this one you quote somewhat unreadable, so I
> was going to propose to remove it, and instead direct the user to look
> at "\? variables" for the exhaustive list. That one is also a bit
> easier to cross-check, I think. (There's also tab-complete.)
Agreed that the set of \pset options has bloated to the point where
that presentation is unreadable.
regards, tom lane
