So what are we going to do about this problem?

The pg_settings view does not have enough information to determine it generically. (It only says 'string', not 'list'...)

I propose that we modify pg_dumpall to hard-code the set of list-type GUC variables for each backend version.

The current (CVS) list of such GUCs is:

* DateStyle
* preload_libraries
* search_path
* log_destination
* custom_variable_classes (probably doesn't need to be worried about)

Shall I go ahead and do this?

Oh, and we'll need to fix the pg_settings view for the future, because otherwise it will make life difficult for GUI writies (like me)...


Chris


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