Re: allow a user to see current_query in pg_stat_activity in 8.4

Tom --

>Greg Williamson <gwilliamson39(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
>> We want to create a role used by a monitor to check for "<IDLE> in Transaction" with the most restrictive permissions we can on a 8.4.13 instance.
>
>> The user has been granted connect privilege to the database and some limited permissions to user tabhles that need to be monitored. But pg_stat_activity shows only "<insufficient privilege>"
>
>Yup.  You can only see the query of another session if (1) you are a
>superuser, or (2) you are the same user the other session is logged in
>as.  Table permissions have nothing to do with this.

Thanks for the swi8ft answer even if wasn't the one I was hoping for. ;-}

Another solution suggests itself then ... thanks!

Greg