On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 11:11:16PM +0200, Akos Vandra wrote:
> Yeah I guessed as much :(
>
> It's definitely something worth mentioning in the docs with a fat warning sign
> though.
We do have a _vague_ warning sign. ;-)
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> Thanks for looking into it.
> Akos
>
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018, 22:53 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Akos Vandra <axos88@gmail.com> writes:
> > But the problem persists even as the database owner, I can't ALTER
> DATABASE
> > (as the db owner) before the extension is loaded into the session.
> > Actually that was the original issue. Non-owners or non-superusers can't
> > use ALTER DATABASE, and that's fine, but not even the DB OWNER can use
> > ALTER DB before a SELECT set_limit(); in case of pg_trgm.
>
> Yeah. It's a design limitation with no easy fix. You just have to
> load the extension so that the code knows the properties of the variable.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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