| From: | Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Can we have a new SQL callable function to get Postmaster PID? |
| Date: | 2021-02-03 21:13:11 |
| Message-ID: | 90a486a6-4a56-dc51-8680-6ad99b2f72ae@enterprisedb.com |
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On 2/3/21 4:08 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Can we have a new function, say pg_postgres_pid(), to return
>> postmaster PID similar to pg_backend_pid()?
>
> I'm disinclined to think that this is a good idea from a security
> perspective. Maybe if it's superuser-only it'd be ok (since a
> superuser would have other routes to discovering the value anyway).
>
Is the postmaster PID really sensitive? Users with OS access can just
list the processes, and for users without OS access / privileges it's
mostly useless, no?
regards
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Tomas Vondra
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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