| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Joel Jacobson <joel(at)compiler(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele(dot)bartolini(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(dot)hagander(at)redpill-linpro(dot)com>, Maciek Sakrejda <m(dot)sakrejda(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Possibility to disable `ALTER SYSTEM` |
| Date: | 2024-03-26 14:23:51 |
| Message-ID: | 2820300.1711463031@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 5:04 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>> To me, externally_managed_configuration is promising a lot more than it
>> delivers because there is still a lot of ocnfiguration it doesn't
>> control. I am also confused why the purpose of the feature, external
>> management of configuation, is part of the variable name. We usually
>> name parameters for what they control.
> I actually agree with this. I wasn't going to quibble with it because
> other people seemed to like it. But I think something like
> allow_alter_system would be better, as it would describe the exact
> thing that the parameter does, rather than how we think the parameter
> ought to be used.
+1. The overpromise-and-underdeliver aspect of the currently proposed
name is a lot of the reason I've been unhappy and kept pushing for it
to lock things down more. "allow_alter_system" is a lot more
straightforward about exactly what it does, and if that is all we want
it to do, then a name like that is good.
regards, tom lane
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