Fabio Rueda Carrascosa <avances123@gmail.com> writes:
> Im planning to publish my postgresql server to a few untrusted clients.
> I dont want them to modify any runtime setting, like work_mem or something
> risky to my server. In general I assume the pg_catalog schema is public but
> I don't want to allow updating pg_settings at all.
If you're allowing untrustworthy users to execute arbitrary SQL,
preventing them from using SET would not make very much difference
in how much trouble they can cause. You're wasting your time worrying
about this.
regards, tom lane
