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From: Joe Conway <[email protected]>
To: Gabriele Bartolini <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Possibility to disable `ALTER SYSTEM`
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 15:57:22 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+VUV5rEKt2+CdC_KUaPoihMu+i5ChT4WVNTr4CD5-xXZUfuQw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+VUV5rEKt2+CdC_KUaPoihMu+i5ChT4WVNTr4CD5-xXZUfuQw@mail.gmail.com>

On 9/7/23 15:51, Gabriele Bartolini wrote:
> I would like to propose a patch that allows administrators to disable 
> `ALTER SYSTEM` via either a runt-time option to pass to the Postgres 
> server process at startup (e.g. `--disable-alter-system=true`, false by 
> default) or a new GUC (or even both), without changing the current 
> default method of the server.

Without trying to debate the particulars, a huge +1 for the concept of 
allowing ALTER SYSTEM to be disabled. FWIW I would vote the same for 
control over COPY PROGRAM.

Not coincidentally both concepts were built into set_user: 
https://github.com/pgaudit/set_user

-- 
Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

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