Re: run GUC check hooks on RESET
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-02-15T21:59:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes: > Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote: >> This patch makes me a little nervous, because the existing >> behavior seems to have been coded for quite deliberately. > It does, although I'm not clear *why* it was. I suspect it may have > been based on an assumption that whatever value is in the reset_val > field had to have been already determined to be good, so it was a > waste of cycles to check it again -- without considering that the > validity of making a change might depend on context. Yes, I'm inclined to think the same, although obviously we need to review the patch carefully. The GUC code is a bit ticklish. The main thing I would be worried about is whether you're sure that you have separated the RESET-as-a-command case from the cases where we actually are rolling back to a previous state. regards, tom lane