From: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
To: Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>
Cc: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuhang Qiu <iamqyh@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ALTER SYSTEM RELOAD
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:28:35 +0100
Message-ID: <87ld8qq464.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260924093522.GA19443@p46.dedyn.io;lightning.p46.dedyn.io>
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Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 03:39:22PM +0800, Chao Li wrote:
>> Is there a reason ALTER SYSTEM RELOAD needs stronger privileges than
>> pg_reload_conf()?
>
> Well, it is clear that you won't be able to GRANT this on a SQL-level.
>
> But what could be done is add the pg_maintain (or something similar)
> default role as an allowed user for running this command besides
> Superuser.
There's already GRANT ALTER SYSTEM ON PARAMETER, it would be natural to
extend that with GRANT ALTER SYSTEM RELOAD and whatver other operations
we decide to add.
> Michael
- ilmari
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