Re: Monitoring roles patch

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Monitoring roles patch
Date: 2017-03-28 16:55:36
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZA-gM+Un0E65seyVT45axpaH8q-QRDs8L+nSUrynkSMA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>> I don't see any precedent in the code for having a hardcoded role, other than
>> superuser, and allowing privileges based on a hardcoded test for membership
>> in that role. I'm struggling to think of all the security implications of that.
>
> This would be the first.

Isn't pg_signal_backend an existing precedent?

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Robert Haas
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