Re: [v9.1] Add security hook on initialization of instance - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: [v9.1] Add security hook on initialization of instance
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Msg-id AANLkTinHhKXDrpso94GT6XC-48yZ5ws3xuFd5NLTR94_@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [v9.1] Add security hook on initialization of instance  (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>)
Responses Re: [v9.1] Add security hook on initialization of instance  (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>)
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2010/6/14 KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>:
> On the hook, I'd like to obtain security context of the client process
> which connected to the PostgreSQL instance. It is not available at the
> _PG_init() phase, because clients don't connect yet.

Can't you just call getpeercon() the first time you need the context
and cache it in a backend-local variable?  Then you don't need a hook
at all.

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Robert Haas
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