Reject "ALTER DATABASE/USER ... RESET foo" with invalid GUC name.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 9a71989a8f61d7ee003c443a979a1bd43a08ff63
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2025-09-12T22:10:11Z
Reject "ALTER DATABASE/USER ... RESET foo" with invalid GUC name.

If the database or user had no entry in pg_db_role_setting,
RESET silently did nothing --- including not checking the
validity of the given GUC name.  This is quite inconsistent
and surprising, because you *would* get such an error if there
were any pg_db_role_setting entry, even though it contains
values for unrelated GUCs.

While this is clearly a bug, changing it in stable branches seems
unwise.  The effect will be that some ALTER commands that formerly
were no-ops will now be errors, and people don't like that sort of
thing in minor releases.

Author: Vitaly Davydov <v.davydov@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30783e-68c28a00-9-41004480@130449754

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