Re: [GENERAL] Stats Collector

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> It all works now and I have just submitted it to -patches as a new contrib,
> >> but it probably should make its way into the backend one day.
> 
> > OK, the big question is how do we want to make stats reset visible to
> > users?  The current patch uses a function call.  Is that how we want to
> > do it?
> 
> Should we make it visible at all?  I'm concerned about security.

Yea, as long as it is in contrib, only the super-user can install it,
but once installed, anyone can run it, I think.  

A function seems like the wrong way to go on this.  SET has super-user
protections we could use to control this but I am not sure what SET
syntax to use.

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