[$] The PostgreSQL community debates ALTER SYSTEM

Sometimes the smallest patches create the biggest discussions. A case inpoint would be the process by which the PostgreSQL community - not a groupnormally prone to extended, strongly worded megathreads - resolved the question ofwhether to merge a brief patch adding a new configuration parameter. Sometimes, a proposal that looks like a security patch is not, infact, intended to be a security patch, but getting that point across can bedifficult.