Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Ideally yes, but they're "special cases" by virtue of behaving specially.
> AFAIR, the behaviour couldn't be fitted in exactly, but maybe with the
> "assign hook" it would work.
Even if these variables can't easily be made table-driven,
it seems like the code in SetPGVariable should be removed and folded
into set_config_option, so that the special-case variable names are
recognized in more cases than just SET.
regards, tom lane