KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com> writes:
>>>> The attached patch tries to add one more security hook on the
>>>> initialization of PostgreSQL instance (InitPostgres()).
>> Yeah, but so what? Stephen's point is still valid.
> On the hook, I'd like to obtain security context of the client process
> which connected to the PostgreSQL instance. It is not available at the
> _PG_init() phase, because clients don't connect yet.
InitPostgres is called by a number of process types that don't *have*
clients. I concur with the other opinions that this hook is badly
thought out.
regards, tom lane