Re: Possibility to disable `ALTER SYSTEM`

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele(dot)bartolini(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Possibility to disable `ALTER SYSTEM`
Date: 2023-09-09 15:14:50
Message-ID: 202309091514.fdjfxlr5kjrw@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2023-Sep-08, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> Now, it might be that you don't care at all about the *security* side
> of the feature, and only care about the convenience side. But in that
> case, the original suggestion from Tom of using an even trigger seems
> like a fine enough solution?

ALTER SYSTEM, like all system-wide commands, does not trigger event
triggers. These are per-database only.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/event-trigger-matrix.html

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