Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review]) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dimitri Fontaine
Subject Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review])
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In response to Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review])  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review])
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> The OPs people are the ones that will be upset with this because the DBAs
> will be modifying configs which OPs rightfully claim as theirs.

If that's the problem you want to solve, there's no technical solution
that will put you at ease. That's a people and trust problem.

I don't think typical (or less typical) organisation should drive our
technical choices too much, and I'm pretty confident they didn't in the
past: pg_hba.conf is a file not because it's meant for this or that team
but because it makes sense technically to manage the settings to allow
using some resources *outside* of said resources.

We currently have no way that I know of to disable ALTER ROLE SET and
ALTER DATABASE SET effects, why do we need to provide that feature for
ALTER SYSTEM SET so much?

Regards,
-- 
Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr     PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support



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