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PostgreSQL has a lot of useful views for DBAs to get information about the database and its current state. For this section, we will concentrate on the pg_settings view, which supplies a wealth of data regarding the current server settings, defaults, and usage context. We recommend that you peruse the PostgreSQL documentation for this view.

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