On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 4:08 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> The patch-of-record contains no such wording.
I plan to fix that, if nobody else beats me to it.
> And if this isn't a
> security feature, then what is it? If you have to say to your
> (super) users "please don't mess with the system configuration",
> you might as well just trust them not to do it the easy way as not
> to do it the hard way. If they're untrustworthy, why have they
> got superuser?
I mean, I feel like this question has been asked and answered before,
multiple times, on this thread. If you sincerely don't understand the
use case, I can try again to explain it. But somehow I feel like it's
more that you just don't like the idea, which is fair, but it seems
like a considerable number of people feel otherwise.
--
Robert Haas
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