On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 5:33 PM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Erm -- obviously that BEGIN was unnecessary and you see the error
> without it. Anyway, the point I was making is that you don't get an
> error if you set it in postgresql.conf, but you do if you set it in
> other contexts, including the parallel worker startup sequence. I
> wondered if this might have been a consequence of the parallel startup
> reordering that happened with commit 6c3c9d41, but nope --
> RestoreGUCState() was always run inside a transaction.
I wonder if this known issue is relevant here:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20153.1523471686%40sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Geoghegan
