Re: [ADMIN] Giving postgres roles 'sudo'-like access

2011-12-20 Thread Mario Splivalo
On 12/19/2011 07:46 PM, Craig James wrote: Backend Postgres processes run as the Postgres user, so they have permission to kill each other. You write an add-on function that just kills a process: select my_kill_backend(pid); Naturally, this is very dangerous. There are all sorts of

Re: [ADMIN] Giving postgres roles 'sudo'-like access

2011-12-20 Thread Greg Smith
On 12/19/2011 01:04 PM, Mario Splivalo wrote: I need to have postgres role to be able to cancel queries run by that same role. This feature is close to commit as a new one for PostgreSQL 9.2: http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4eeb3a2b.8090...@2ndquadrant.com

[ADMIN] Giving postgres roles 'sudo'-like access

2011-12-19 Thread Mario Splivalo
I need to have postgres role to be able to cancel queries run by that same role. I know that I can kill the client connection that started the query, but I also need to have that role connect to postgres and kill some of it's running queries. It's on postgres 9.1.1, running on Debian Squeeze.

Re: [ADMIN] Giving postgres roles 'sudo'-like access

2011-12-19 Thread Craig James
On 12/19/11 10:04 AM, Mario Splivalo wrote: I need to have postgres role to be able to cancel queries run by that same role. I know that I can kill the client connection that started the query, but I also need to have that role connect to postgres and kill some of it's running queries. It's on