[GENERAL] Privilege for seeing queries using pg_stat_get_backend_activity

2006-01-19 Thread Marc Munro
I want certain users to be able to examine running queries using pg_stat_get_backend_activity. Unfortunately, this will only show other users' activity if you have superuser privilege. I do not want to give monitoring users superuser privilege, but I do need to allow them to perform monitoring

Re: [GENERAL] Privilege for seeing queries using pg_stat_get_backend_activity

2006-01-19 Thread Tom Lane
Marc Munro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want certain users to be able to examine running queries using pg_stat_get_backend_activity. Unfortunately, this will only show other users' activity if you have superuser privilege. I do not want to give monitoring users superuser privilege, but I do

Re: [GENERAL] Privilege for seeing queries using pg_stat_get_backend_activity

2006-01-19 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:17:12AM -0800, Marc Munro wrote: I've tried tricks with security definer functions but this does not help as pg_stat_get_backend_activity explicitly checks for the caller being a superuser. Works here. Could you post an example? -- Michael Fuhr