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From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Append to a GUC parameter ?
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Msg-id 20140806021952.GI13302@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Append to a GUC parameter ?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Aug  5, 2014 at 07:22:13PM -0600, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Tue, Aug  5, 2014 at 12:52:51PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >> However, other than shared_preload_libraries, I can't think of a GUC
> >> which would benefit from this.  Can you?
> 
> > search_path?
> 
> Given the security implications of search_path, assembling its value
> from independent parts sounds like a darn bad idea from here.

I can imagine someone wanting to prefix/suffix to search_path for a user
via ALTER USER.

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