Re: Non-superuser subscription owners

On 2023-01-24 Tu 08:50, Robert Haas wrote:
>
> What do you think about something in the spirit of a
> reverse-pg_hba.conf? The idea being that PostgreSQL facilities that
> make outbound connections are supposed to ask it whether those
> connections are OK to initiate.  Then you could have a default
> configuration that basically says "don't allow loopback connections"
> or "require passwords all the time" or whatever we like, and the DBA
> can change that as desired. We could teach dblink, postgres_fdw, and
> CREATE SUBSCRIPTION to use this new thing, and third-party code could
> adopt it if it likes.
>

I kinda like this idea, especially if we could specify the context that
rules are to apply in. e.g. postgres_fdw, mysql_fdw etc. I'd certainly
give it an outing in the redis_fdw if appropriate.


cheers


andrew

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