Hi,
On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 08:23:54PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 10:03:10AM +0000, Bertrand Drouvot wrote:
> > I'm not sure the user ID alone is enough though: if B reuses A's ProcNumber,
> > pg_stat_get_backend_wal(B_pid) could still return A's cached statistics when
> > the caller is allowed to see A's data.
> >
> > I'd keep the PID check from 0002 as well. A generation would be more robust
> > against PID reuse, as done for example for AIO handles, but introducing a
> > backend generation seems like too much for this case.
> >
> > So storing both seems like the simplest approach: the user ID for the ACL
> > check and the PID for matching the statistics to the requested backend.
>
> The PID would also act as a kind of weaker generation number, slightly
> weaker but simpler. So that works here. Perhaps you would like to
> give it a shot?
Do you mean adding the user ID on top of Shihao's 0002? If so, I can have a look,
unless Shihao is already planning to update the patch along those lines?
Regards,
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Bertrand Drouvot
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