Re: A modest proposal: get rid of GUC's USERLIMIT variable

On Tue, 10 Nov 2004, Greg Stark wrote:

>
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>
> > I'd like to propose that we get rid of GUC's USERLIMIT category and
> > convert all the variables in it to plain SUSET.  In my mind, USERLIMIT
> > is a failed experiment: it's way too complicated, and it still doesn't
> > do quite what it was intended to do, because there are times when it
> > can't check whether you're a superuser.
> >
> > The only variables that are in the category are log-verbosity-related:
>
> Would that mean I wouldn't be able to change the logging level on the fly at
> all?

I would think you'd still be able to do it through a security definer
wrapper function owned by a superuser.