Michael Banck <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 03:39:22PM +0800, Chao Li wrote: >> Is there a reason ALTER SYSTEM RELOAD needs stronger privileges than >> pg_reload_conf()? > > Well, it is clear that you won't be able to GRANT this on a SQL-level. > > But what could be done is add the pg_maintain (or something similar) > default role as an allowed user for running this command besides > Superuser.
There's already GRANT ALTER SYSTEM ON PARAMETER, it would be natural to extend that with GRANT ALTER SYSTEM RELOAD and whatver other operations we decide to add. > Michael - ilmari
