Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review])

Robert Haas escribió:
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> > A shared catalog which defined which *database* to run the trigger in,
> > with a way to fire off a new backend worker in that database and tell it
> > to run the trigger, might be interesting and would deal with the issue
> > that the trigger would behave differently depending on the database
> > connected to.  That would bring along other issues, of course, but it
> > seemed an interesting enough idea to mention.
> 
> Eh, maybe.  I'm not sure there's enough use case for that to justify
> the amount of infrastructure it would require.  I'm happy with the
> recent enhancements to background workers, but there's an awful lot of
> ground to cover between that and what you're proposing.

Yeah, agreed.  There's a lot of infrastructure required for this; it
seems hard to justify it only to support disabling ALTER SYSTEM.

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