| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, cedric(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Disabling ALTER SYSTEM SET WAS: Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters |
| Date: | 2013-08-06 15:08:21 |
| Message-ID: | 20130806150821.GQ11189@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:58:52AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> > =?iso-8859-1?q?C=E9dric_Villemain?= <cedric(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > > Maybe better to provide a contrib/ to modify config, then design what we can
> > > achieve more with an ALTER SYSTEM command.
> >
> > Hmm ... putting the UI into a contrib module would neatly solve the
> > problem for people who don't want the functionality. They just don't
> > install the module. Another thought here is that it seems like we've
> > been discussing multiple scenarios that don't necessarily all have the
> > same best solution. Maybe we should think in terms of multiple contrib
> > modules.
>
> I'd certainly be happier with that- but it already exists, to some
> extent, in the form of the pgAdmin "adminpack" contrib module. Perhaps
> we should be working on improving what we've already got there rather
> than adding something completely new..
Yes, "adminpack" has mostly read/write file I/O operations --- it would
need a higher-level API.
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