Make "postgres -C guc" print "" not "(null)" for null-valued GUCs.
Commit 0b0baf262 et al made this case print "(null)" on the grounds that that's what happened on platforms that didn't crash. But neither behavior was actually intentional. What we should print is just an empty string, for compatibility with the behavior of SHOW and other ways of examining string GUCs. Those code paths don't distinguish NULL from empty strings, so we should not here either. Per gripe from Alain Radix. Like the previous patch, back-patch to 9.2 where -C option was introduced. Discussion: <CA+YdpwxPUADrmxSD7+Td=uoshmb1kkdn7g7cf+fgmnjjxmh...@mail.gmail.com> Branch ------ REL9_2_STABLE Details ------- http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/dd41661d2c613c3e4f8328191758398bfbcbd598 Modified Files -------------- src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) -- Sent via pgsql-committers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-committers
