Re: custom variables and PGC_SUSET issue

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>> When we have a custom SUSET variable, like plpgsql.variable_conflikt,
>> then setting this variable before plpgsql initalisation raises a
>> exception, but it raise a exception when some plpgsql function is
>> created. Try to execute a attached script - a set statement is ok, but
>> CREATE FUNCTION fails.
>
> You can't set a custom SUSET variable in advance of loading the module,
> because the system has no way to know it should enforce superuser
> restrictions on setting it.  For the most part, this is a good reason to
> avoid custom SUSET variables.

Apparently we haven't taken that advice ourselves?

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