Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org> writes:
> Taking this even further, why do we bother with non-immutable (i.e.,
> depending on the database's contents) checks during ALTER ROLE/DATABASET SET
> at all?
Yeah, I was wondering about that one too. It would not solve all the
problems here, but skipping validity checks would fix some of them.
The trouble of course is what happens if the value is found to be bad
when you try to use it ...
regards, tom lane
