Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users
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Msg-id CAM-w4HPgk23DZxHoZWOLYFO47pxR+cq-AF3f6w1Jz44rMuNgtw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
> Well maybe. Or we want this useful information at a finer granularity
> than "everyone or nobody" and given the choice we prefer to have it
> than not.

Anyways, I don't feel incredibly strongly about this. I think we
should default any user-data to being visible only that user as a
general principle but I also think a system predicated on data like
argv or application_name being kept private is pretty fragile and
should be avoided so I'm not super tense about additional ways these
things can leak. I feel like this is an example where -hackers has a
bit of a blind spot when it comes to smaller databases by users who
aren't expert DBAs and don't need a dedicated box.


-- 
greg



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