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Re: Proposal to sync SET ROLE and pg_stat_activity

Subject: Re: Proposal to sync SET ROLE and pg_stat_activity
From: Bernd Helmle
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:04:06 +0200
Newsgroups: pgsql.hackers


--On Mittwoch, August 27, 2008 09:35:03 +0200 Grant Finnemore <grant@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a session pool, where all connections to the database are
obtained as a superuser. On issuing connections to the client, we
invoke either SET ROLE or SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION and switch to
a role with less permissions. This means that we don't have to
reserve a connection per user, and we can still use the database
access restrictions.


But you have to ensure that your session pool is smaller than max_connections, since this will eat up superuser_reserved_connections and would make administrator intervention impossible under certain circumstances.

And why do you need to hack pg_stat_activity, isn't it possible to plug your own view in?

--
 Thanks

                   Bernd

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