Re: Possibility to disable `ALTER SYSTEM`

Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>

From: Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Joel Jacobson <joel@compiler.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele.bartolini@enterprisedb.com>, Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakrejda@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-03-20T19:55:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Add allow_alter_system GUC.

  2. Rename COMPAT_OPTIONS_CLIENT to COMPAT_OPTIONS_OTHER.

  3. Remove support for version-0 calling conventions.

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 08:11:32PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> (And FWIW also already solved on debian-based platforms for example,
> which but the main config files in /etc with postgres only having read
> permissions on them 

JFTR - Debian/Ubuntu keep postgresql.conf under /etc/postgresql, but
that directory is owned by the postgres user by default and it can
change the configuration files (if that wasn't the case, external tools
like Patroni that run under the postgres user and manage postgresql.conf
would work much less easily on them).


Michael