Re: Proposal: SET ROLE hook

From: David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Proposal: SET ROLE hook
Date: 2016-03-16 15:28:22
Message-ID: 56E97B96.6020400@pgmasters.net
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On 3/6/16 1:17 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:

> 2016-03-05 21:49 GMT+01:00 Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com
> <mailto:mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>>:
>
> I still don't see any point in trying to pass data back from the hooks
> as the extension can maintain that state just fine, although it looks
> like it would be pretty trivial to do using a new void* member added to
> role_auth_extra. Tom (or anyone else), any comment on that?
>
> see Tom's comment, I share his opinion.
>
> I do however find myself wishing I could pass the action down from
> set_config_option() to at least the assign_role() hook, but that seems
> more invasive than I'd like.
>
> describe this use case, please.

Joe, it looks there are some unresolved questions from Pavel and Craig
on this thread and probably a new patch is required. Any idea when you
can get to that?

Thanks,
--
-David
david(at)pgmasters(dot)net

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