Re: Show dropped users' backends in pg_stat_activity

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:35 PM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
<horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> Even if blocking DROPs is not perfect for all cases,
> unconditionally allowing to DROP a role still doesn't seem proper
> behavior, especially for replication roles. And session logins
> seem to me to have enough reason to be treated differently than
> disguising as another role using SET ROLE or sec-definer.
>
> The attached patch blocks DROP ROLE for roles that own active
> sessions, and on the other hand prevents a session from being
> activated if the login role is concurrently dropped.
>
> Oskari's LEFT-Join patch is still desirable.
>
> Is this still pointless?

I am not really in favor of half-fixing this.  If we can't
conveniently wait until a dropped role is completely out of the
system, then I don't see a lot of point in trying to do it in the
limited cases where we can.  If LEFT JOIN is the way to go, then,
blech, but, so be it.

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