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authorTom Lane2016-06-22 15:55:18 +0000
committerTom Lane2016-06-22 15:55:18 +0000
commite45e990e4b547f05bdb46e4596d24abbaef60043 (patch)
tree18d8f42a96a1d5f155b63a1cf11614b6b468ed3f
parent6a9c51810f1db08de4033cbecd95a83d7b364fd1 (diff)
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>
-rw-r--r--src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
index e350dd29252..19d11e0e0da 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ PostmasterMain(int argc, char *argv[])
const char *config_val = GetConfigOption(output_config_variable,
false, false);
- puts(config_val ? config_val : "(null)");
+ puts(config_val ? config_val : "");
ExitPostmaster(0);
}