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Re: [PATCH] Fix ALTER SYSTEM empty string bug for GUC_LIST_QUOTE parameters

Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>

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From: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrei Klychkov <andrew.a.klychkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-11-04T17:12:43Z
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On 11/4/25 5:58 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hearing no further comments, I'm going to go ahead with v6.

Honestly none of the alternatives is very appealing and v6 is probably 
the least bad.

When I ran into this issue I thought about adding and EMPTY keyword (we 
do not want more keywords) or adding support for specifying array 
literals like this [] or [a, b], but that would be confusing since 
postgresql.conf does not allow any such syntax.

Andreas