pg_get_functiondef forgets about most GUC_LIST_INPUT GUCs

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: pg_get_functiondef forgets about most GUC_LIST_INPUT GUCs
Date: 2018-01-11 06:49:00
Message-ID: 20180111064900.GA51030@paquier.xyz
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Hi all,

While reviewing another patch related to the use of pg_strcasecmp in the
backend, I have noticed this bit in ruleutils.c:

/*
* Some GUC variable names are 'LIST' type and hence must not
* be quoted.
*/
if (pg_strcasecmp(configitem, "DateStyle") == 0
|| pg_strcasecmp(configitem, "search_path") == 0)
appendStringInfoString(&buf, pos);
else
simple_quote_literal(&buf, pos);

However this fails to consider all GUCs marked as GUC_LIST_INPUT, like
the recent wal_consistency_checking. guc.c already holds a find_option()
which can be used to retrieve the flags of a parameter. What about using
that and filtering by GUC_LIST_INPUT? This requires exposing the
function, and I am not sure what people think about that.

Thoughts?
--
Michael

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