debugger from superuser only.... why?

From: Александр Петросян (web) <paf(at)yandex(dot)ru>
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Subject: debugger from superuser only.... why?
Date: 2023-09-20 05:30:08
Message-ID: 6006191695187640@mail.yandex.ru
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<div>Checked few sources, can not seem to find reasoning behind this limit:</div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb( 33 , 37 , 41 );font-family:'-apple-system' , 'blinkmacsystemfont' , 'segoe ui' , 'roboto' , 'helvetica neue' , 'arial' , 'noto sans' , 'liberation sans' , sans-serif , 'apple color emoji' , 'segoe ui emoji' , 'segoe ui symbol' , 'noto color emoji';font-size:16px;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:0px">&gt; You must have <strong>superuser</strong> privileges to use the debugger.</p><div>From <a href="https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/latest/debugger.html">here</a>.</div><div> </div><div>Say, in java/c++/many_others... one can debug from non-proviledged user allright. Not so with pldbgapi.</div><div> </div><div>What is the reason?</div><div> </div><div>Alexander Petrossian (PAF)</div></div>

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