Re: Functions To Let Users Cancel/Terminate own Back Ends - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: Functions To Let Users Cancel/Terminate own Back Ends
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Msg-id 28CF095D-2F6F-4004-AE00-9E78B3D20093@kineticode.com
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In response to Re: Functions To Let Users Cancel/Terminate own Back Ends  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On Feb 2, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:

>> I have a need at my $dayjob to let users cancel their own back ends. See any issues with this function to allow them
todo that? Any security gotchas or anything? 
>
> You mean something like this?
> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=0495aaad8b337642830a4d4e82f8b8c02b27b1be
>
> (So yes, the principle was agreed to be safe)

Oh, it *was* committed? Excellent. Yeah, looks pretty similar in principal. Thanks!

David


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