On 2005-08-08, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> I've considered before adjusting pg_settings so that it would take UPDATEs
> and convert them to SET statements. However, I'm not really sure what the
> benefit of this would be.
It's done that (via rules) since at least as far back as 7.4, no?
(Though it suffers from the usual problem in that it rewrites an UPDATE
into a SELECT, resulting in an UPDATE command that returns tuples, which is
known to break some client interfaces.)
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