| From: | Nico Williams <nico(at)cryptonector(dot)com> |
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| To: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: proposal: schema variables |
| Date: | 2017-10-26 22:07:33 |
| Message-ID: | 20171026220732.GI4496@localhost |
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On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 09:21:24AM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Comments, notes?
I like it.
I would further like to move all of postgresql.conf into the database,
as much as possible, as well as pg_ident.conf and pg_hba.conf.
Variables like current_user have a sort of nesting context
functionality: calling a SECURITY DEFINER function "pushes" a new value
onto current_user, then when the function returns the new value of
current_user is "popped" and the previous value restored.
It might be nice to be able to generalize this.
Questions that then arise:
- can one see up the stack?
- are there permissions issues with seeing up the stack?
I recently posted proposing a feature such that SECURITY DEFINER
functions could observe the _caller_'s current_user.
Nico
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