On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 05:46:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
>> If we allow changing GUCs in _PG_init() and provide another hook where
>> MaxBackends will be initialized, do we need to introduce another GUC flag,
>> or can we get away with just blocking all GUC changes when the new hook is
>> called? I'm slightly hesitant to add a GUC flag that will need to manually
>> maintained. Wouldn't it be easily forgotten?
>
> On the whole I think Robert's got the right idea: we do not really
> need an enforcement mechanism at all. People who are writing
> extensions that do this sort of thing will learn how to do it right.
> (It's not like there's not a thousand other things they have to get
> right.)
Okay. So maybe we only need the attached patches. 0001 is just 5ecd018
un-reverted, and 0002 is Julien's patch from a few weeks ago with some
minor edits.
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