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Re: Possibility to disable `ALTER SYSTEM`

Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>

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From: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, 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>, Magnus Hagander <magnus.hagander@redpill-linpro.com>, Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakrejda@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-03-19T16:56:01Z
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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.

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 12:05 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> If you aren't willing to build a solution that blocks off mods
> using COPY TO FILE/PROGRAM and other readily-available-to-superusers
> tools (plpythonu for instance), I think you shouldn't bother asking
> for a feature at all.  Just trust your superusers.
>

There is a huge gap between using a well-documented standard tool like
ALTER SYSTEM and going out of your way to modify the configuration files
through trickery. I think we need to only solve the former as in "hey,
please don't do that because your changes will be overwritten"

Cheers,
Greg