Make "postgres -C guc" print "" not "(null)" for null-valued GUCs.
authorTom Lane <[email protected]>
Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:55:18 +0000 (11:55 -0400)
committerTom Lane <[email protected]>
Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:55:24 +0000 (11:55 -0400)
commitf2c28bb1f2fee6fa33d2d6d4316b3f1d499543a4
tree72122530623f755daba4711c15ad753fd876777d
parent7a349889ec1e80123f475fb171640b8273f921fd
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+FGmNjjxMhjbw@mail.gmail.com>
src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c