Re: Possibility to disable `ALTER SYSTEM`

> On 26 Mar 2024, at 13:11, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 5:04 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

>> To me, externally_managed_configuration is promising a lot more than it
>> delivers because there is still a lot of ocnfiguration it doesn't
>> control.  I am also confused why the purpose of the feature, external
>> management of configuation, is part of the variable name.  We usually
>> name parameters for what they control.
>
> I actually agree with this. I wasn't going to quibble with it because
> other people seemed to like it. But I think something like
> allow_alter_system would be better, as it would describe the exact
> thing that the parameter does, rather than how we think the parameter
> ought to be used.

+Many.  Either allow_alter_system or enable_alter_system_command is IMO
preferrable, not least because someone might use this without using any
external configuration tool, making the name even more misleading.

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Daniel Gustafsson