Re: Session Identifiers

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dmitry Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: oleg yusim <olegyusim(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Session Identifiers
Date: 2015-12-20 16:44:24
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2015-12-20 17:30 GMT+01:00 Dmitry Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> Can be totally different if you use some connection pooler like pgpool or
>> pgbouncer - these applications can reuse Postgres server sessions for more
>> user sessions.
>>
> BTW, AFAIK, it's not possible to change the session authentication
> information by
> using SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION [1] if the current user is not a superuser.
> But it would be very nice to have a feature to change the session
> authorization
> of current user even without superuser's privilege by supplying a password
> of
> the user specified in SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION. This feature allows
> to use PostgreSQL's native privileges via connection pools -- i.e. without
> needs to open a dedicated connection for authenticated user. Is it possible
> to implement it?
>

there is a workaround with security definer function and SET role TO ?

Pavel

>
> [1]
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-set-session-authorization.html
>

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