Re: pg_stat_replication security

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:11, Itagaki Takahiro
<itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 19:51, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> Here's a patch that limits it to superuser only. We can't easily match
>> it to the user of the session given the way the walsender data is
>> returned - it doesn't contain the user information. But limiting it to
>> superuser only seems perfectly reasonable and in line with the
>> encouragement not to use the replication user for login.
>>
>> Objections?
>
> It hides all fields in pg_stat_wal_senders(). Instead, can we just
> revoke usage of the function and view?  Or, do we have some plans
> to add fields which normal users can see?

Yes, for consistency with pg_stat_activity. We let all users see which
other sessions are there, but not what they're doing - seems
reasonable to have the same definitions for replication sessions as
other sessions.

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