| From: | Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Cédric Villemain <cedric(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-Dev <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 18:55:46 |
| Message-ID: | CAGTBQpZDR9hnU2YB=fzKisJUbam_JLds95SmTyaYRStBo-00ZA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>> I'd like to look at use cases, and let's see how ALTER SYSTEM SET
>> addresses or doesn't address these use cases. I'd really like it if
>> some other folks also posted use cases they know of.
>>
>> (1) Making is easier for GUIs to manage PostgreSQL settings.
>
> One of the traps here is that while it makes it easier, it also could
> trap the user if they don't have the knowledge to fix a problem because
> would need to acquire the knowledge while they are trying to fix the
> problem, rather then while they are making the initial change.
I think the more serious problem here is not about knowledge
acquisition, but access to problem-fixing means. As was said some
posts ago, if a DBA has access to a superuser account but not to
server configuration files, he can lock himself out for good. No
amount of knowledge will avail him/her. That's bad.
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