Re: Information of pg_stat_ssl visible to all users

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Information of pg_stat_ssl visible to all users
Date: 2015-08-31 19:23:23
Message-ID: 55E4A9AB.9010702@gmx.net
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On 8/31/15 9:13 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> I'm just saying that we should strive to behave at least somewhat
> consistently, and change everything at once, not piecemal. Because the
> latter will not decrease the pain of migrating to a new model in a
> relevant way while making the system harder to understand.

Well, we already hide a fair chunk of information from pg_stat_activity
from unprivileged users, including everything related to the connection
origin of other users. So from that precedent, the entire SSL
information ought to be considered privileged.

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