| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Harold Giménez <harold(at)heroku(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users |
| Date: | 2014-01-21 16:10:10 |
| Message-ID: | CABUevEwxM0+uH38yd2sf5onk+7OFAUEjN9k72CBPYjzb+3=f-w@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>wrote:
> Stephen Frost wrote:
> > * Craig Ringer (craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> > > It also means that monitoring tools must run as superuser to see
> > > information they require, which to me is a total showstopper.
> >
> > We've already got *far* too much of that going on for my taste. I'd
> > love to see a comprehensive solution to this problem which allows
> > monitoring systems to run w/o superuser privileges.
>
> Yeah, we need a CAP_MONITOR capability thingy. (CAP_BACKUP would be
> great too -- essentially "read only but read everything")
>
Isn't CAP_BACKUP pretty much the REPLICATION privilege?
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Magnus Hagander
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