On 2022-10-01 20:24:21 +0800, Julien Rouhaud wrote: > On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 02:05:53PM +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > On 2022-09-30 17:59:01 -0700, Bryn Llewellyn wrote: > > > set rls.tenant_id=42; > > > > This works because there is a "." in the name. Without the "." > > PostgreSQL complains: > > > > hjp=> set rls_tenant_id=42; > > ERROR: unrecognized configuration parameter "rls_tenant_id" > > > > I think I sort of knew this but had forgotten about it, so checked the > > manual for the exact rules. Unfortunately I couldn't find them [...] > > From the documentation I get the impression that you can only set > > existing parameters, not your own. > > > > I therefore suggest adding something like this to the section > > "configuration_parameter" in > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-set.html: > > [...] > > (This of course assumes that the behaviour is intentional and not a > > bug.) > > This is intentional, and documented at > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/runtime-config-custom.html. So it's there but hard to find (I did read the table of contents at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/runtime-config.html but I guess after all the subchapters about specific configuration parameters I didn't notice the one generic subchapter near the end). I think referring to that chapter from https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/sql-set.html and possibly other places would help. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Story must make more sense than reality. |_|_) | | | | | hjp@xxxxxx | -- Charles Stross, "Creative writing __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | challenge!"
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