Monitor without superuser?

From: Jan Nielsen <jan(dot)sture(dot)nielsen(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Monitor without superuser?
Date: 2012-02-17 15:37:22
Message-ID: CANxH4hH_nJ4TkhNpUx6SeP=41WU5APvfbioY8CEr-NYLHCbnLQ@mail.gmail.com
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I would like to create a role "dba_monitor" for a portion of my PG 9.1
user-base to be able to monitor PG but without granting superuser. And I
ran across this:

http://blog.kimiensoftware.com/2011/05/querying-pg_stat_activity-and-insufficient-privilege-291

Specifically, I'd like to enable the dba_monitor users to use PGAdmin III
Server Status tools which requires superuser and I would like this role to
be able write queries like:

SELECT *
FROM pg_locks
LEFT OUTER JOIN pg_class ON (pg_locks.relation = pg_class.oid)
LEFT OUTER JOIN pg_namespace ON (pg_namespace.oid =
pg_class.relnamespace),
pg_stat_activity
WHERE
NOT pg_locks.pid=pg_backend_pid()
AND pg_locks.pid=pg_stat_activity.procpid;

and be able to read all the contents, including the "current_query" which,
it appears, requires superuser.

Is this achievable? Any way around this?

Cheers,

Jan

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