Re: [PATCH] SET search_path += octopus

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> Given that this is just SQL level, I don't see why we'd need a special
> type of language here. You can just use DO etc.

I'd make that point against the whole proposal.  There's nothing here that
can't be done with current_setting() + set_config().  I'm pretty dubious
about layering extra functionality into such a fundamental utility command
as SET; and the fact that we've gone twenty-odd years without similar
previous proposals doesn't speak well for it being really useful.

            regards, tom lane