Re: A modest proposal: get rid of GUC's USERLIMIT variable

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: A modest proposal: get rid of GUC's USERLIMIT variable
Date: 2004-11-10 14:54:50
Message-ID: 20041110065304.J83181@megazone.bigpanda.com
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On Tue, 10 Nov 2004, Greg Stark wrote:

>
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
> > I'd like to propose that we get rid of GUC's USERLIMIT category and
> > convert all the variables in it to plain SUSET. In my mind, USERLIMIT
> > is a failed experiment: it's way too complicated, and it still doesn't
> > do quite what it was intended to do, because there are times when it
> > can't check whether you're a superuser.
> >
> > The only variables that are in the category are log-verbosity-related:
>
> Would that mean I wouldn't be able to change the logging level on the fly at
> all?

I would think you'd still be able to do it through a security definer
wrapper function owned by a superuser.

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