Re: Cross-backend signals and administration (Was: Re: pg_terminate_backend for same-role)

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think the more important question is a policy question: do we want
>> it to work like this?  It seems like a policy question that ought to
>> be left to the DBA, but we have no policy management framework for
>> DBAs to configure what they do or do not wish to allow.  Still, if
>> we've decided it's OK to allow cancelling, I don't see any real reason
>> why this should be treated differently.
>
> Is there a hypothetical DBA that doesn't want a mere-mortal user to be
> able to signal one of their own backends to do "cancel query, rollback
> the transaction, then close the socket"?  If so, why?

Well, I guess if you have different people sharing the same user-ID,
you probably wouldn't want that.

But maybe that's not an important case.

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