| From: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, 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 17:51:03 |
| Message-ID: | 5637A287.4050408@joeconway.com |
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On 11/02/2015 08:33 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> A deeper hook in the ALTER SYSTEM might be another approach, or one
> in the GUC system to allow external libraries to control what various
> GUCs can be set to (either via ALTER SYSTEM or through regular SET
> calls).
I have run into multiple situations where having finer grained control
over the setting of GUCs would have been very useful, and spoken to many
others in the community with the same wish.
> I'd like the ability to control all of the above, ultimately. I
> don't believe that we should be allowing the superuser to always
> modify the catalog directly
+10
Joe
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