Re: [GENERAL] Stats Collector

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >> It all works now and I have just submitted it to -patches as a new contrib,
> >> but it probably should make its way into the backend one day.
>
> > OK, the big question is how do we want to make stats reset visible to
> > users? The current patch uses a function call. Is that how we want to
> > do it?
>
> Should we make it visible at all? I'm concerned about security.

Yea, as long as it is in contrib, only the super-user can install it,
but once installed, anyone can run it, I think.

A function seems like the wrong way to go on this. SET has super-user
protections we could use to control this but I am not sure what SET
syntax to use.

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