Re: Monitoring roles patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Monitoring roles patch
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Msg-id 20170328173721.GF9812@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Monitoring roles patch  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Greetings,

* Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.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?

Yes, it is.

Thanks!

Stephen

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