> On 18 Mar 2024, at 16:34, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 2:09 PM Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> wrote: >> >>> On 18 Mar 2024, at 13:57, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> my proposal is something like this, taking a >>> bunch of text from Jelte's patch and some inspiration from Magnus's >>> earlier remarks: >> >> I still think any wording should clearly mention that settings in the file >> are >> still applied. The proposed wording says to implicitly but to avoid >> confusion >> I think it should be explicit. > > I haven't kept up with the thread, but in general I'd prefer it to > actually turn off parsing the file as well. I think just turning off > the ability to change it -- including the ability to *revert* changes > that were made to it before -- is going to be confusing.
Wouldn't that break pgBackrest which IIRC write to .auto.conf directly without using ALTER SYSTEM? > But, if we have decided it shouldn't do that, then IMHO we should > consider naming it maybe enable_alter_system_command instead -- since > we're only disabling the alter system command, not the actual feature > in total. Good point. -- Daniel Gustafsson
