Re: Controlling changes in plpgsql variable resolution - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Oct 19, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> 1. Invent a GUC that has the settings backwards-compatible,
> oracle-compatible, throw-error (exact spellings TBD).  Factory  
> default,
> at least for a few releases, will be throw-error.  Make it SUSET so  
> that
> unprivileged users can't break things by twiddling it; but it's still
> possible for the DBA to set it per-database or per-user.
>
> 2. Also invent a #option syntax that allows the GUC to be overridden
> per-function.  (Since the main GUC is SUSET, we can't just use a
> per-function SET to override it.  There are other ways we could do  
> this
> but none seem less ugly than #option...)

What about adopting the modifier syntax you're adding to COPY?

David