Re: Audit of logout

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Audit of logout
Date: 2014-07-02 20:52:43
Message-ID: 22984.1404334363@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> In short, maybe we ought to invent a new category PGC_SU_BACKEND (not
> wedded to this spelling), which is to PGC_BACKEND as PGC_SUSET is to
> PGC_USERSET, ie same when-it-can-be-changed behavior but only superusers
> are allowed to change it. I don't have any objection to making these two
> settings only adjustable by superusers --- I just don't want to give up
> the existing timing restrictions for them.

Another idea would be to get rid of PGC_SUSET as a separate category, and
instead have a superuser-only bit in the GUC flags, which would apply to
all categories. This would be a bit more orthogonal, though likely a
much more invasive change.

regards, tom lane

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