On Mon, 2023-09-25 at 11:30 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > That's what this whole thread is about: I wish it was reasonable,
> > but I
> > don't think the tools we provide today make it reasonable. You
> > expect
> > Bob to do something like:
> >
> > CREATE FUNCTION ... SET search_path = pg_catalog, pg_temp ...
> >
> > for all functions, not just SECURITY DEFINER functions, is that
> > right?
>
> Yes, I do. I think it's self-evident that a SQL function's behavior
> is
> not guaranteed to be invariant under all possible values of
> search_path. If you care about your function behaving the same way
> all
> the time, you have to set the search_path.
After adding the search path cache (recent commit f26c2368dc) hopefully
that helps to make the above suggestion more reasonable performance-
wise. I think we can call that progress.
Regards,
Jeff Davis
