Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > On 2019-10-11 16:30:17 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >> But, if it does need to be changed, it seems like a terrible idea to >> allow it to be done via SQL. Otherwise, the user can break the driver >> by using SQL to set the list to something that the driver's not >> expecting, and there's nothing the driver can do to prevent it.
> Uhm. The driver can just ignore GUCs it's not interested in, like our > docs have told them for a long time? Certainly it should do that; but the problematic case is where it *doesn't* get told about something it's depending on knowing about. regards, tom lane