Re: Possibility to disable `ALTER SYSTEM`

> On 11 Sep 2023, at 15:50, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 5:14 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> Hah, didn't think of that. And yes, that's a very good point. But one
> way to fix that would be to actually make event triggers for system
> wide commands, which would then be useful for other things as well...

Wouldn't having system wide EVTs be a generic solution which could be the
infrastructure for this requested change as well as others in the same area?

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Daniel Gustafsson