Re: Possibility to disable `ALTER SYSTEM`

On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 at 20:10, Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakrejda@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024, 11:46 Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 1:12 PM Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 at 13:05, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> The purpose of the setting is to prevent <emphasis>accidental</emphasis> modifications via <literal>ALTER
SYSTEM</literal>in environments where 
>> >> The emphasis on 'accidental' seems a bit heavy here, and odd. Surely, just "to prevent modifications via ALTER
SYSTEMin environments where..." is enough? 
>> > Not necessarily disagreeing, but it's very important nobody ever mistake this for a security feature. I don't know
ifthe extra word "accidental" is necessary, but I think that's the motivation. 
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>> I think the emphasis is entirely warranted in this case.
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> +1. And while "non-malicious" may technically be more correct, I don't think it's any clearer.

Attached is a new version of the patch with some sentences reworded. I
changed accidentally to mistakenly (which still has emphasis). And I
hope with the rewording it's now clearer to the reader why that
emphasis is there.