| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Add support for logging the current role |
| Date: | 2011-02-17 16:18:32 |
| Message-ID: | 20110217161832.GA4116@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Well, that just doesn't seem useful to me in the real world. If I were
> using this, I would expect it to emit a real user name that matches the
> currently applied permissions checking. All the time.
I wouldn't have ever thought to use %U w/o %u, to be honest. Unless I'm
missing something though, this change would just be emitting what
show_session_authorization() returns when show_role() returns 'none'.
That's certainly fine by me.
> "show role" does
> what it does because the SQL standard says so, not because anybody
> outside the standards committee thinks that's a sane definition.
Guess it actually makes some sense to me.
Thanks,
Stephen
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