On 2018-Dec-08, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2018-12-08 17:10:27 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > This is what patch 0001 does -- it's only allowed in the connection
> > string, or on ALTER USER / ALTER DATABASE. Setting it in
> > postgresql.conf is forbidden, as well as changing from transaction to
> > statement in SET (the opposite is allowed, though.)
>
> I don't think allowing to set it on a per-user basis is acceptable
> either, it still leaves the client in a state where they'll potentially
> be confused about it.
Hmm, true.
> Do you have a proposal to address the issue that this makes it just
> about impossible to write UDFs in a safe way?
Not yet, but I'll give it a think next week.
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