On 2012-01-31 14:06, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Yeb Havinga<yebhavinga@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What about always allowing a transition to the default / postgresql.conf
>> configured client label, so in the case of errors, or RESET, the transition
>> to this domain is hardcoded to succeed. This would also be useful in
>> conjunction with a connection pooler. This would still allow the option to
>> prevent a back transition to non-default client labels.
> I don't think you can make that work, because someone can still
> attempt to RESET to a different value, and it's still not safe to make
> that fail.
But the idea is that if that different value is a (possibly changed into
a new) allowed default value, a RESET to that new default value will be
allowed, by definition, because it is a default value.
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