Re: autonomous transactions

On 08/31/2016 03:09 PM, Joel Jacobson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Jaime Casanova
> <jaime.casanova@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 30 August 2016 at 23:10, Joel Jacobson <joel@trustly.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> There should be a way to within the session and/or txn permanently
>>> block autonomous transactions.
>>>
>>
>> This will defeat one of the use cases of autonomous transactions: auditing
> 
> My idea on how to deal with this would be to mark the function to be
> "AUTONOMOUS" similar to how a function is marked to be "PARALLEL
> SAFE",
> and to throw an error if a caller that has blocked autonomous
> transactions tries to call a function that is marked to be autonomous.
> 
> That way none of the code that needs to be audited would ever get executed.

Part of what people want this for is to audit what people *try* to do.
We can already audit what they've actually done.

With your solution, we still wouldn't know when an unauthorized attempt
to do something happened.
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