Re: Possibility to disable `ALTER SYSTEM`

Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>

From: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakrejda@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Joel Jacobson <joel@compiler.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele.bartolini@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus.hagander@redpill-linpro.com>
Date: 2024-03-15T11:09:10Z
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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.

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On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 at 11:08, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> Another quirk for the documentation of this: if I disable ALTER SYSTEM I would
> assume that postgresql.auto.conf is no longer consumed, but it still is (and
> still need to be), so maybe "enable/disable" is the wrong choice of words?

Updated the docs to reflect this quirk. But I kept the same name for
the GUC for now, because I couldn't come up with a better name myself.
If someone suggests a better name, I'm happy to change it though.