On 1/7/22, 12:27 PM, "Robert Haas" <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 1:09 PM Bossart, Nathan <bossa...@amazon.com> wrote: >> While that approach would provide a way to safely retrieve the value, >> I think it would do little to prevent the issue in practice. If the >> size of the patch is a concern, we could also convert MaxBackends into >> a macro for calling GetMaxBackends(). This could also be a nice way >> to avoid breaking extensions that are using it correctly while >> triggering ERRORs for extensions that are using it incorrectly. I've >> attached a new version of the patch that does it this way. > > That's too magical for my taste.
Fair point. v4 [0] is the less magical version. Nathan [0] https://postgr.es/m/attachment/125445/v4-0001-Disallow-external-access-to-MaxBackends.patch
