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Re: Possibility to disable `ALTER SYSTEM`

David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>

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From: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Joel Jacobson <joel@compiler.org>, Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele.bartolini@enterprisedb.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus.hagander@redpill-linpro.com>, Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakrejda@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-03-27T22:20:38Z
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.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 3:18 PM David G. Johnston <
david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 3:13 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 06:09:02PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 11:05:55AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 10:43 AM Jelte Fennema-Nio <
>> postgres@jeltef.nl> wrote:
>> > > > Alright, changed the GUC name to "allow_alter_system" since that
>> seems
>> > > > to have the most "votes". One other option would be to call it
>> simply
>> > > > "alter_system", just like "jit" is not called "allow_jit" or
>> > > > "enable_jit".
>> > > >
>> > > > But personally I feel that the "allow_alter_system" is clearer than
>> > > > plain "alter_system" for the GUC name.
>> > >
>> > > I agree, and have committed your 0001.
>> >
>> > So, I email "Is this really a patch we think we can push into PG 17. I
>> > am having my doubts," and the patch is applied a few hours after my
>> > email.  Wow.
>>
>> Also odd is that I don't see the commit in git master, so now I am
>> confused.
>>
>
> The main feature being discussed is in the 0002 patch while Robert pushed
> a doc section rename in the 0001 patch.
>
>
Well, the internal category name was changed though the docs did remain
unchanged.

David J.