Re: allow a user to see current_query in pg_stat_activity in 8.4 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Greg Williamson
Subject Re: allow a user to see current_query in pg_stat_activity in 8.4
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Msg-id 1355456074.36965.YahooMailNeo@web125901.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: allow a user to see current_query in pg_stat_activity in 8.4  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom --


>Greg Williamson <gwilliamson39@yahoo.com> writes:
>> We want to create a role used by a monitor to check for "<IDLE> in Transaction" with the most restrictive
permissionswe can on a 8.4.13 instance. 
>
>> The user has been granted connect privilege to the database and some limited permissions to user tabhles that need
tobe monitored. But pg_stat_activity shows only "<insufficient privilege>" 
>
>Yup.  You can only see the query of another session if (1) you are a
>superuser, or (2) you are the same user the other session is logged in
>as.  Table permissions have nothing to do with this.



Thanks for the swi8ft answer even if wasn't the one I was hoping for. ;-}

Another solution suggests itself then ... thanks!

Greg



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