Re: Converting from single user w/pool to multiple users - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeff Amiel
Subject Re: Converting from single user w/pool to multiple users
Date
Msg-id 4243449A.2010200@istreamimaging.com
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In response to Re: Converting from single user w/pool to multiple users  ("Guy Rouillier" <guyr@masergy.com>)
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We intended to do that very thing (read the earlier parts of the thread
between myself and Tom Lane)

Jeff

Guy Rouillier wrote:

>Jeff Amiel wrote:
>
>
>>The issue is really propogating the authenticaion credentials to the
>>database itself.....it's our ON INSERT/ON UPDATE/ON DELETE triggers
>>that are doing the auditing and they need the user ID to accurately
>>log changes.  In lieu of any other  per-connection persistant data
>>option, this seems like the best bet.
>>
>>
>
>I still don't like the idea of thousands of connections, most of which
>will probably most of the time be doing nothing except consuming lots of
>memory.  You might want to explore creating a small wrapper around the
>JBoss connection pool that uses SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION after
>obtaining a connection.  That way you can still have a small number of
>pooled connections but have the real user id associated with the
>connection.
>
>
>


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