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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: Alvaro Herrera
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:53:41 -0400
Newsgroups: pgsql.hackers

Grant Finnemore wrote:

> Well, pg_stat_activity isn't really the problem here, because as you
> point out, it's just a view, and I could certainly redefine the view.
> The limiting factor is that the backend doesn't push the role name
> changes to the stats subsystem for either SET ROLE or SET SESSION
> AUTH.

Keep in mind that stats are updated only once every 500 ms, and messages
have a nontrivial overhead.  With your proposed changes, there would be
a significant performance overhead to running security definer
functions.

A possible solution to this would be to publish current_user in shared
memory, so that remote processes could read it from there (similar to
how current_query is published).

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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