On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 11:14:57PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Could we fix the out-of-sync risk by having InitializeGUCOptions insist
> that the pre-existing value of the variable match what is in guc_tables.c?
> That may not work for string values but I think we could insist on it
> for other GUC data types.  For strings, maybe the rule could be "the
> old value must be NULL or strcmp-equal to the boot_val".

pg_strcasecmp()'d would be more flexible here?  Sometimes the
character casing on the values is not entirely consistent, but no
objections to use something stricter, either.
--
Michael

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