Re: Disabling ALTER SYSTEM SET WAS: Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, 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>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Disabling ALTER SYSTEM SET WAS: Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters
Date: 2013-08-05 21:23:30
Message-ID: 520017D2.3060407@agliodbs.com
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Stefan,

> thinking more about that - is there _ANY_ prerequisite of an application
> that can be completely reconfigured over a remote access protocol and
> solved the reliability and security challenges of that to a reasonable
> degree?

Good question!

I also think that, given the issues raised in discussion of ALTER SYSTEM
SET, we should poll a bit of the wider community. I'll put something up
on my blog, unless someone can think of a better way.

--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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