Re: Extended test coverage and docs for SSL passphrase commands

On 2025-Nov-21, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:

> The attached v2 adds a GUC debug_exec_backend which can be used to get the
> state of the running cluster,

Nice idea.

I think the parallel to debug_assertions is not perfect, because you can
turn off debug_assertions in a server built with them included, but you
cannot turn off EXEC_BACKEND. This says we shouldn't name the symbol
with the DEFAULT word: it should just be "EXEC_BACKEND_ENABLED". The
value already cannot be changed, which is good, and there are tests for
this behavior of PGC_INTERNAL gucs in src/test/modules/unsafe_tests/sql/guc_privs.sql,
so I think we don't need anything additional.

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