Re: Possibility to disable `ALTER SYSTEM`

On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 5:14 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>
> On 2023-Sep-08, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
> > Now, it might be that you don't care at all about the *security* side
> > of the feature, and only care about the convenience side. But in that
> > case, the original suggestion from Tom of using an even trigger seems
> > like a fine enough solution?
>
> ALTER SYSTEM, like all system-wide commands, does not trigger event
> triggers.  These are per-database only.
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/event-trigger-matrix.html

Hah, didn't think of that. And yes, that's a very good point. But one
way to fix that would be to actually make event triggers for system
wide commands, which would then be useful for other things as well...

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