2011/6/2 Noah Misch :
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:26:34PM -0400, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Noah Misch wrote:
>> > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:56:02AM -0400, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
>> >> Looking around, I see there were real problems[1] with sending SIGTERM
>> >> t
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:56:02AM -0400, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
>> Looking around, I see there were real problems[1] with sending SIGTERM
>> to individual backends back in 2005 or so, and pg_terminate_backend()
>> was only deemed safe enough to
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Noah Misch wrote:
> What risks arise from unconditionally allowing these calls for the same user's
> backends? `pg_cancel_backend' ought to be safe enough; the user always has
> access to the standard cancellation protocol, making the SQL interface a mere
> conven
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have added it to the next commit fest.
Hi Torello,
I have volunteered (more accurately, Greg Smith "volunteered" me :-)
to be a reviewer for this patch. I know you're a bit new here, so I
thought I'd outline where this patch stands and wh
Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Torello Querci wrote:
>
> > I attach a path for this
>
> It's too late in the release cycle to consider this for version 9.1.
> Please add it to the open CommitFest for consideration for 9.2:
>
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view/open
I have ad
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Anssi Kääriäinen
wrote:
> On 02/14/2011 02:10 PM, Torello Querci wrote:
>>
>> I suppose that give the right to the owner db user to terminate or
>> cancel other session connected to the database which it is owner is a
>> good thing.
>> I not see any security proble
Torello Querci wrote:
> I attach a path for this
It's too late in the release cycle to consider this for version 9.1.
Please add it to the open CommitFest for consideration for 9.2:
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view/open
-Kevin
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On 02/14/2011 02:10 PM, Torello Querci wrote:
I suppose that give the right to the owner db user to terminate or
cancel other session connected to the database which it is owner is a
good thing.
I not see any security problem because this user can cancel or
terminate only the session related with
Hi,
this is the first time that I post here, so if I wrong please don't kill me ...
I see that pg_terminate_backend and pg_cancel_backend can be execute
only by admin users.
This approach seems to be too restrictive in a lots of real situation.
In dept, I have a situation where it is created one
