Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Amit Kapila escribió:

> The only point I can see against SET PERSISTENT is that other variants of
> SET command can be used in
> transaction blocks means for them ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT functionality works,
> but for SET PERSISTENT,
> it can't be done.
> So to handle that might be we need to mention this point in User Manual, so
> that users can be aware of this usage.
> If that is okay, then I think SET PERSISTENT is good to go.

I think that's okay.  There are other commands which have some forms
that can run inside a transaction block and others not.  CLUSTER is
one example (maybe the only one?  Not sure).

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