> On 11 Sep 2023, at 15:50, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 5:14 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@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...
Wouldn't having system wide EVTs be a generic solution which could be the infrastructure for this requested change as well as others in the same area? -- Daniel Gustafsson