UPDATE pg_catalog.pg_proc.prosrc OK?

I'm working on a tool to simplify updating the source code of database functions.

To do a "revert" my plan is to store the values of pg_proc.* before updating, and then to restore pg_proc for the given oid if a revert is necessary.

This raises the question,

Is it "safe" to do,

UPDATE pg_proc SET <column> = <new source code> WHERE oid = <function's oid>;

instead of using the "CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION" command?

(Using pg_dump -s + pg_restore isn't feasible since it operates on the entire schema, and not just a subset of functions, important in my case.)

Thanks for any advise.