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

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-08-05T21:23:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Stefan,

> thinking more about that - is there _ANY_ prerequisite of an application
> that can be completely reconfigured over a remote access protocol and
> solved the reliability and security challenges of that to a reasonable
> degree?

Good question!

I also think that, given the issues raised in discussion of ALTER SYSTEM
SET, we should poll a bit of the wider community.  I'll put something up
on my blog, unless someone can think of a better way.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com