Re: pg_terminate_backend for same-role

Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> But actually I don't see what you hope to gain from such a change,
>> even if it can be made to work. Anyone who can do kill(SIGINT) can
>> do kill(SIGKILL), say --- so you have to be able to trust the signal
>> sender. What's the point of not trusting it to verify the client
>> identity?

> No longer true with pg_cancel_backend not-by-superuser, no?

No. That doesn't affect the above argument in the least. And in fact
if there's any question whatsoever as to whether unprivileged
cross-backend signals are secure, they are not going in in the first
place.

regards, tom lane