Re: Monitoring roles patch

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Mark Dilger <hornschnorter(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Monitoring roles patch
Date: 2017-03-28 17:37:21
Message-ID: 20170328173721.GF9812@tamriel.snowman.net
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Greetings,

* Robert Haas (robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> >> I don't see any precedent in the code for having a hardcoded role, other than
> >> superuser, and allowing privileges based on a hardcoded test for membership
> >> in that role. I'm struggling to think of all the security implications of that.
> >
> > This would be the first.
>
> Isn't pg_signal_backend an existing precedent?

Yes, it is.

Thanks!

Stephen

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