Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> If you've just made this a GUC_LIST_INPUT variable, then you will need 
> to update the nasty bit of hackiness in pg_dumpall to allow it to be 
> dumped without error :(

Dumped by what?  It's a PGC_POSTMASTER variable, there ain't gonna be
nobody putting it in ALTER DATABASE or ALTER USER.

> The problem is there's no way to know if they're list type gucs when 
> dumping, unless we modify the pg_settings view or something.

Yeah, it might be nice to have an API to get at those flag bits.

			regards, tom lane

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