Re: Permission select pg_stat_replication

From: "Gilberto Castillo" <gilberto(dot)castillo(at)etecsa(dot)cu>
To: "Stephen Frost" <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: "Gilberto Castillo" <gilberto(dot)castillo(at)etecsa(dot)cu>, jesse(dot)waters(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Permission select pg_stat_replication
Date: 2015-03-31 14:42:06
Message-ID: 46009.192.168.207.54.1427812926.squirrel@webmail.etecsa.cu
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> Gilberto,
>
> * Gilberto Castillo (gilberto(dot)castillo(at)etecsa(dot)cu) wrote:
>> > * jesse(dot)waters(at)gmail(dot)com (jesse(dot)waters(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>> >> Could someone tell me what permission is required to
>> >> select * from pg_stat_replication; ?
>> >
>> > Currently, you're required to have superuser rights.
>> >
>> >> I like to setup a monitor to query database with minimal privileges
>> >> necessary.
>> >
>> > I agree 110% and am actively working to fix exactly this issue. I
>> hope
>> > to have a patch in the next day or so which will allow you to GRANT
>> > rights to such a monitor user which will allow that user to see all
>> the
>> > contents of pg_stat_replication.
>> >
>> > One thing which would be really great is if you have time to test with
>> > the patch I'm working up (it's against 9.5, but this is strictly
>> > functionality testing and should be just in in a dev/test environment,
>> > I wouldn't suggest running 9.5 in production, of course!).
> [...]
>> SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION postgres;
>>
>> GRANT SELECT ON pg_stat_replication TO usuario1;
>
> This is (essentially) what I'm hoping to enable. Note that this won't
> do anything for you today as the view is already available to all users
> on the system and it's actually the function underneath which is
> filtering the result set.
>

Uhmmm,

ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES FOR ROLE postgres GRANT SELECT ON VIEWS TO
usuario1;

Nor does it work?

Saludos,
Gilberto Castillo
La Habana, Cuba

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