Greetings, * Andres Freund (and...@anarazel.de) wrote: > On 2021-04-26 11:34:16 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > > 9afffcb has added the concept of authenticated identity to the > > information provided in log_connections for audit purposes, with this > > data stored in each backend's port. One extra thing that can be > > really useful for monitoring is the capability to track this > > information directly in pg_stat_activity. > > I'm getting a bit worried about the incremental increase in > pg_stat_activity width - it's probably by far the view that's most > viewed interactively. I think we need to be careful not to add too niche > things to it. This is especially true for columns that may be wider. > > It'd be bad for discoverability, but perhaps something like this, that's > not that likely to be used interactively, would be better done as a > separate function that would need to be used explicitly?
I mean.. we already have separate functions and views for this, though they're auth-method-specific currently, but also provide more details, since it isn't actually a "one size fits all" kind of thing like this entire approach is imagining it to be. Thanks, Stephen
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