Re: "unix_socket_directories" should be GUC_LIST_INPUT?

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 12:49:57AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Although ... just to argue against myself for a moment, how likely
> is it that pg_dump is going to be faced with the need to dump a
> value for unix_socket_directories?

I am trying to think about some scenarios here, but honestly I
cannot..

> So maybe we could get away with just changing it.  It'd be good to
> verify though that this doesn't break existing string values for
> the variable, assuming they contain no unlikely characters that'd
> need quoting.

Yeah, that's the kind of things I wanted to check anyway before
considering doing the switch.
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Michael