Re: Disabling ALTER SYSTEM SET WAS: Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters

Cédric Villemain <cedric@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Cédric Villemain <cedric@2ndquadrant.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com>
Date: 2013-08-06T10:40:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > Again, what are we trying to achieve?!
> 
> no idea - wondering about that myself...

It seems we are trying to add grammar for modifying postgresql.conf.
Something we can already do easily in a standard extension, but without 
grammar changes.

Maybe better to provide a contrib/ to modify config, then design what we can 
achieve more with an ALTER SYSTEM command.
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