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