Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users
Date
Msg-id 20140121134121.GG10723@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Craig Ringer (craig@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> > It also means that monitoring tools must run as superuser to see
> > information they require, which to me is a total showstopper.
> 
> We've already got *far* too much of that going on for my taste.  I'd
> love to see a comprehensive solution to this problem which allows
> monitoring systems to run w/o superuser privileges.

Yeah, we need a CAP_MONITOR capability thingy.  (CAP_BACKUP would be
great too -- essentially "read only but read everything")

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Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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