Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> (a) Nobody but me is afraid of the consequences of treating this as >> a GUC. (I still think you're all wrong, but so be it.)
> I'm afraid of it, I'm just not sure I have a better idea. It wouldn't > bother me a bit if we made the only available behavior "throw an > error", but I'm afraid it will bother someone else. > Is there a chance we could make this a GUC, but only allow it to be > changed at the function level, with no way to override the server > default? It seems to me that the chances of blowing up the world > would be a lot lower that way, though possibly still not low enough. I don't particularly care to invent a new GUC class just for this, but if we think the issue is important enough, we could (a) make the GUC superuser-only (b) invent a #option or similar syntax to override the GUC per-function. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers