On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 3:49 PM Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> We could also make it a protocol message, but it would essentially
> implement the same thing, just again separately. And then you'd have no
> support to inspect the current setting, test out different settings
> interactively, etc. That seems pretty wasteful and complicated for no
> real gain.
But ... if it's just a GUC, it can be set by code on the server side
that the client knows nothing about, breaking the client. That seems
pretty bad to me.
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Robert Haas
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