From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
Cc: | Don Seiler <don(at)seiler(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Include application_name in "connection authorized" log message |
Date: | 2018-08-07 13:59:09 |
Message-ID: | 25559.1533650349@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> * Don Seiler (don(at)seiler(dot)us) wrote:
>> Is the concern that any user can set their client's application name value
>> to any string they want? Is there a reason we can't call
>> check_application_name() before setting it in the Port struct in
>> postmaster.c?
> I've not looked very closely, but I don't think it's necessairly a big
> deal to print out the application name provided by the client system
> into the log before we run check_application_name(), as long as there
> isn't any risk that printing it out or passing it around without
> performing that check will cause incorrect operation or such.
I think the issue is exactly that putting a malformed appname into the
postmaster log could confuse log-reading apps (eg by causing encoding
problems). Moreover, if you don't check it then the appname recorded
by log_connections would not match appearances for the same session
later in the log, which puts the entire use-case for this patch into
question. So no, this concern must not be dismissed.
However ... I've not looked at the patch, but I thought the idea was to
allow assignment of that GUC to occur before the log_connections log entry
is emitted, so that it'd show up in the entry's log_line_prefix. Wouldn't
check_application_name happen automatically at that point?
regards, tom lane
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