Re: Audit of logout

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Audit of logout
Date: 2014-09-03 14:39:22
Message-ID: CAHGQGwGJP0Cj2XPKVB7Ep74Z7tB5=dvdUxP90Md987X0iwr40Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> > wrote:
>> > Changing PGC_SU_BACKEND parameter (log_connections) is
>> > visible even with a non-super user client due to above code.
>> > Shouldn't it be only visible for super-user logins?
>> >
>> > Simple steps to reproduce the problem:
>> > a. start Server (default configuration)
>> > b. connect with superuser
>> > c. change in log_connections to on in postgresql.conf
>> > d. perform select pg_reload_conf();
>> > e. connect with non-super-user
>> > f. show log_connections; --This step shows the value as on,
>> > --whereas I think it should have
>> > been
>> > off
>>
>> In this case, log_connections is changed in postgresql.conf and it's
>> reloaded, so ISTM that it's natural that even non-superuser sees the
>> changed value. No? Maybe I'm missing something.
>
> Yeah, you are right.
>
> With the latest patch, I am getting one regression failure on windows.
> Attached is the regression diff.

Thanks for testing the patch!

That regression failure looks strange, I'm not sure yet why that happened...
Does it happen only on Windows?

> Can we improve this line a bit?
> ! * BACKEND options are the same as SU_BACKEND ones, but they can
> BACKEND options can be set same as SU_BACKEND ones, ......

Yep.

Regards,

--
Fujii Masao

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