Re: Possibility to disable `ALTER SYSTEM`

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 11:10:31AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > Is this really a patch we think we can push into PG 17. I am having my
> > doubts.
>
> If the worst thing that happens in PG 17 is that we push a patch that
> needs a few documentation corrections, we're going to be doing
> fabulously well.

My point is that we are designing the user API in the last weeks of the
commitfest, which usually ends badly for us, and the fact the docs were
not even right in the patch just reenforces that concern.

But, as I stated in another email, you said you committed the patch,
yet I don't see it committed in git master, so I am confused.

Ah, I figured it out. You were talking about the GUC renaming:

commit de7e96bd0fc
Author: Robert Haas <rhaas(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Date: Wed Mar 27 10:45:28 2024 -0400

Rename COMPAT_OPTIONS_CLIENT to COMPAT_OPTIONS_OTHER.

The user-facing name is "Other Platforms and Clients", but the
internal name seems too focused on clients specifically, especially
given the plan to add a new setting to this session that is about
platform or deployment model compatibility rather than client
compatibility.

Jelte Fennema-Nio

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAGECzQTfMbDiM6W3av+3weSnHxJvPmuTEcjxVvSt91sQBdOxuQ@mail.gmail.com

Please ignore my complaints, and my apologies.

As far as the GUC change, let's just be careful since we have a bad
history of pushing things near the end that we regret. I am not saying
that would be this feature, but let's be careful.

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