| From: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, Ian Barwick <ian(dot)barwick(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: let's make the list of reportable GUCs configurable (was Re: Add %r substitution for psql prompts to show recovery status) |
| Date: | 2019-10-08 15:52:00 |
| Message-ID: | CAMsr+YEcF9BhkOPALasAYyb9ckT-7K6e6wN-AEa0AxXqiRvZ9Q@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 at 01:27, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> We have steadfastly refused to provide protocol-level tools for things
> like "please change my user ID, and don't let anyone change it again
> via SQL," and that's a huge problem for things like connection poolers
> which can't parse all the SQL flowing through the connection (because
> figuring out what it does requires solving the Halting Problem) and
> wouldn't want to if they could for performance reasons. I think that's
> a huge mistake.
I very strongly agree. The inability to limit SET and RESET of SESSION
AUTHORIZATION and ROLE is a huge pain point and it's far from the only one.
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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
2ndQuadrant - PostgreSQL Solutions for the Enterprise
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