| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Harold Giménez <harold(at)heroku(dot)com>, Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users |
| Date: | 2014-01-28 20:14:34 |
| Message-ID: | 52E80FAA.1050008@agliodbs.com |
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On 01/28/2014 12:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>> For example, I would really like to GRANT an unpriv user access to the
>> WAL columns in pg_stat_replication so that I can monitor replication
>> delay without granting superuser permissions.
>
> Just out of curiosity, why is that superuser-only at all? AFAICS the
> hidden columns are just some LSNs ... what is the security argument
> for hiding them in the first place?
Beats me, I can't find any discussion on it at all.
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com
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