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

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Cédric Villemain <cedric@2ndquadrant.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..
Thanks,
    Stephen