Function call crashes server

If I do this as any user:

SELECT update_pg_pwd();

it crashes all backends and causes a server-wide restart. Is this
acceptable behavior? I am sure there are other cases too. Isn't it a
problem that we let ordinary users crash the server and cause a restart?

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LOG: server process (pid 23337) was terminated by signal 11
LOG: terminating any other active server processes
LOG: all server processes terminated; reinitializing shared memory and semaphores
FATAL: The database system is starting up
LOG: database system was interrupted at 2002-03-21 03:42:08 CET
LOG: checkpoint record is at 0/43C048
LOG: redo record is at 0/43C048; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE
LOG: next transaction id: 99; next oid: 24747
LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress
LOG: redo starts at 0/43C088
LOG: ReadRecord: record with zero length at 0/4421B4
LOG: redo done at 0/442190
LOG: database system is ready

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