| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Harold Giménez <harold(at)heroku(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users |
| Date: | 2014-01-21 13:41:21 |
| Message-ID: | 20140121134121.GG10723@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org |
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Craig Ringer (craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> > It also means that monitoring tools must run as superuser to see
> > information they require, which to me is a total showstopper.
>
> We've already got *far* too much of that going on for my taste. I'd
> love to see a comprehensive solution to this problem which allows
> monitoring systems to run w/o superuser privileges.
Yeah, we need a CAP_MONITOR capability thingy. (CAP_BACKUP would be
great too -- essentially "read only but read everything")
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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