Re: "unix_socket_directories" should be GUC_LIST_INPUT?

On 2020-10-23 10:02, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> 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.

If we're going to change it I think we need an updated patch that covers 
pg_dump.  (Even if we argue that pg_dump would not normally dump this 
variable, keeping it up to date with respect to GUC_LIST_QUOTE seems 
proper.)

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