From 961f946a7653738313a7cd3471e9ca2b10669949 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 12:43:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Treat empty text settings as unset, to allow users to clear a
 string to get the default back.

---
 web/pgadmin/utils/preferences.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/web/pgadmin/utils/preferences.py b/web/pgadmin/utils/preferences.py
index 1dcb509c6..82a454ba0 100644
--- a/web/pgadmin/utils/preferences.py
+++ b/web/pgadmin/utils/preferences.py
@@ -129,6 +129,9 @@ class _Preference(object):
             if res.value in self.options:
                 return res.value
             return self.default
+        if self._type == 'text':
+            if res.value == '':
+                return self.default
 
         return res.value