Re: Replication logging

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 16:03, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>>>>> What do you have in mind?
>>>>
>>>> Either having it controlled by log_connections, or perhaps have a
>>>> log_highpriv_connections that controls replication *and* superuser, to
>>>> be somewhat consistent.
>>>
>>> -1.  We could provide an option to turn this on and off, but I
>>> wouldn't want it merged with log_connections or logging of superuser
>>> connections.
>>
>> Fair enough, we could have a log_replication_connections as a separate
>> one then? Or having one log_connections, one
>> log_replication_connections and one log_superuser_connections?
>
> log_replication_connections seems reasonable.  Not sure about
> log_superuser_connections.

So basically like this (see attachment).


>>> Incidentally, I think ClientAuthentication_hook is sufficiently
>>> powerful to allow logging of superuser connections but no others, if
>>> someone wanted to write a contrib module.  That doesn't necessarily
>>> mean an in-core facility wouldn't be useful too, but it's at least
>>> worth thinking about using the hook.
>>
>> Do we have an example of this hook somewhere already? If not, it could
>> be made into a useful example of that, perhaps?
>
> contrib/auth_delay

Hmm, ok, so not that then :-)


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