| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Harold Giménez <harold(at)heroku(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users |
| Date: | 2014-01-22 00:01:31 |
| Message-ID: | 20140122000131.GG29396@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 03:57:37PM -0800, Harold Giménez wrote:
> > It also means that monitoring tools must run as superuser to see
> > information they require, which to me is a total showstopper.
>
>
> Well, the fact is that if you don't run monitoring tools as superuser,
> there may not be enough connection slots available anyways, in cases
> where actual usage is consuming all of max_connections, and only the
> reserved slots are available. So in a way it's already unreliable to
> run monitoring as non-superuser unfortunately.
You might need to run as superuser in these cases, but it is hard to see
why would need to do that in the normal case.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
+ Everyone has their own god. +
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