Re: Is this a bug? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br> wrote:
>
> On 13-03-2014 00:11, Fabrízio de Royes Mello wrote:
> > Shouldn't the "ALTER" statements below raise an exception?
> >
> For consistency, yes. Who cares? I mean, there is no harm in resetting
> an unrecognized parameter. Have in mind that tighten it up could break
> scripts. In general, I'm in favor of validating things.
>

I know this could break scripts, but I think a consistent behavior should be raise an exception when an option doesn't exists.

> euler@euler=# reset noname;
> ERROR:  42704: unrecognized configuration parameter "noname"
> LOCAL:  set_config_option, guc.c:5220
>

This is a consistent behavior.

Regards,

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