Re: "unix_socket_directories" should be GUC_LIST_INPUT?

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-10-27T16:19:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 9:45 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > 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.)
>
> Right, I was definitely assuming that that would happen.

If we change this, is it going to be a compatibility break for the
contents of postgresql.conf files?

-- 
Robert Haas
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Commits

  1. Add GUC_LIST_INPUT and GUC_LIST_QUOTE to unix_socket_directories