| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: ALTER SYSTEM vs symlink |
| Date: | 2015-11-02 14:50:23 |
| Message-ID: | 20151102145023.GQ3685@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* Andres Freund (andres(at)anarazel(dot)de) wrote:
> On 2015-11-02 09:43:02 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > What this request strikes me as asking for is the same as what I asked
> > for when this feature was originally going in- there should be a way to
> > disable it.
>
> You can just revoke permissions on the file if necessary. Results in the
> expected
> ERROR: XX000: could not open file "../postgresql.auto.conf": Permission denied
Yes, I know, but that's a really grotty way of offering a way to disable
ALTER SYSTEM. It's also not exactly intuitive to someone reading the
release notes or working on upgrading their existing postgresql.conf.
Thanks!
Stephen
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