Hi! 2012/1/31 Guillaume Lelarge <guilla...@lelarge.info>
> On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 04:16 -0800, durumdara wrote: > > Dear PGSQL Masters! > > > > I have a complicated question. > > > > Is there any way to extend the session information (what visible in > > pgadmin's "Server Status")? > > > > I explain what I want to do: > > > > We used alternative DB in a place and I need to port this. > > In this DB we using different db users for every real users. > > When the program logging to the server it input for username/pwd, and > > log with it. > > So if John XY logged in, the session is shown as "John XY", which is a > > real user, and db user too. > > > > This meaning that if we have 80 users, we need to create 80 db users. > > > > It is very useful when you want to see who use the db, but very tiring > > when you want to create or manage them (plus role, etc). > > > > Creating 80 users is not a really big burden. Managing privileges for 80 > users will be. So you need to create some roles, on which you'll > grant/revoke privileges, and you'll make each user member of one or more > of the roles. > This is also make problems when I don't want to install a new PGSQL server, but they want to see the old, closed archives. Now one solution is if I make prefixes on usernames: main_[name] archive1_[name] and the program automatically set these prefixes. But it would be easier if I can use one DB user can represent all users, and I can make differents on them with extending session info (additional "fields"). main_user archive1_user archive2_user Thanks: dd