On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 01:23:36PM +0100, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> + <para>
> + Turning this setting off is intended for environments where the
> + configuration of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> is managed by
> + some external tool.
> + In such environments, a well intentioned superuser might
> + <emphasis>mistakenly</emphasis> use <command>ALTER SYSTEM</command>
> + to change the configuration instead of using the external tool.
> + This might result in unintended behavior, such as the external tool
> + discarding the change at some later point in time when it updates the
"discarding" -> "overwriting" ?
> + <para>
> + <literal>ALTER SYSTEM</literal> can be disabled by setting
> + <xref linkend="guc-allow-alter-system"/> to <literal>off</literal>, but this
> + is no security mechanism (as explained in detail in the documentation for
"is no" -> "is not a"
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