| From: | Tommy Gildseth <tommy(dot)gildseth(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no> |
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| To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | mail(at)joeconway(dot)com |
| Subject: | Add dblink function to check if a named connection exists |
| Date: | 2008-05-28 08:23:10 |
| Message-ID: | 483D166E.5030507@usit.uio.no |
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I have locked down access to all dblink_* functions, so that only
certain privileged users have access to them, and instead provide a set
of SRF functions defined as security definer functions, where I connect
to the remote server, fetch some data, disconnect from remote server,
and return the data.
One obvious disadvantage of this approach, is that I need to connect and
disconnect in every function. A possible solution to this, would be
having a function f.ex dblink_exists('connection_name') that returns
true/false depending on whether the connection already exists. This
way, I could just check if a named connection exists, and establish a
connection if not, and wait until the end of the session to disconnect
all established connections.
I've attached a patch with a suggested implementation of such a function.
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Tommy Gildseth
| Attachment | Content-Type | Size |
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| dblink.patch | text/x-diff | 4.3 KB |
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