Re: Should we get rid of custom_variable_classes altogether?
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-10-03T15:16:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes: > Yeah. custom_variable_classes is a pretty annoying wart, but if it's > set to the default value (namely, empty) then it actually does prevent > people from setting bajillions of completely pointless settings, which > seems like it has some merit. I'm not sure it has enough merit to > justify keeping it around, but it has more than none. We could allow > entering a date of February 31st, too, but we don't. Well, that argument was essentially why we put it in to begin with. But I think pretty much everybody agrees that it's more trouble than it's worth (in fact, weren't you one of the people complaining about it?) regards, tom lane