> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:53 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> On 2019-Feb-26, Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
>
> > Yes, it should be rather simple, we can e.g. return to the old less consistent
> > NULL handling approach something (like in the attached patch), or replace a NULL
> > value with an empty string in WriteToc. Give me a moment, I'll check it out. At
> > the same time I would suggest to keep replace_line_endings -> sanitize_line,
> > since it doesn't break compatibility.
>
> Hmm, shouldn't we modify sanitize_line so that it returns strdup(hyphen)
> when input is empty and want_hyphen, too?
Yes, you're right.
> I think it would be better to just put back the .defn = "" (etc) to the
> ArchiveEntry calls.
Then we should do this not only for defn, but for owner and dropStmt too. I can
update the fix patch I've sent before, if it's preferrable approach in this
particular situation. But I hope there are no objections if I'll then submit
the original changes with more consistent null handling separately to make
decision about them more consciously.