Re: On login trigger: take three

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ivan Panchenko <wao(at)mail(dot)ru>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>, Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar(dot)ahmad(at)gmail(dot)com>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: On login trigger: take three
Date: 2022-03-14 00:35:44
Message-ID: 84640.1647218144@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> I was thinking that the way to use it would be to specify it as a client
> option. Like PGOPTIONS='-c ignore_event_trigger=login' psql.

Ugh ... that would allow people (at least superusers) to bypass
the login trigger at will, which seems to me to break a lot of
the use-cases for the feature. I supposed we'd want this to be a
PGC_POSTMASTER setting for security reasons.

regards, tom lane

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