Re: Proposal: Save user's original authenticated identity for logging - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Greetings,

* Jacob Champion (pchampion@vmware.com) wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 18:01 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > Ok..  but what's 'go' mean here?  We already have views and such for GSS
> > and SSL, is the idea to add another view for LDAP and add in columns
> > that are returned by pg_stat_get_activity() which are then pulled out by
> > that view?  Or did you have something else in mind?
>
> Magnus suggested a function like pg_get_authenticated_identity(), which
> is what I was thinking of when I said that. I'm not too interested in
> an LDAP-specific view, and I don't think anyone so far has asked for
> that.
>
> My goal is to get this one single point of reference, for all of the
> auth backends. The LDAP mapping conversation is separate.

Presumably this would be the DN for SSL then..?  Not just the CN?  How
would the issuer DN be included?  And the serial?

Thanks,

Stephen