Re: profiling connection overhead

Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of lun dic 06 23:09:56 -0300 2010:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Please explain more precisely what is wrong with SET SESSION
> >> AUTHORIZATION / SET ROLE.
> >
> > 1) Session GUCS do not change with a SET ROLE (this is a TODO I haven't
> > had any time to work on)
> >
> > 2) Users can always issue their own SET ROLE and then "hack into" other
> > users' data.
> 
> Makes sense.  It would be nice to fix those issues, independent of
> anything else.

It seems plausible to fix the first one, but how would you fix the
second one?  You either allow SET ROLE (which you need, to support the
pooler changing authorization), or you don't.  There doesn't seem to be
a usable middleground.

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