Stephen Frost wrote: > * Craig Ringer (cr...@2ndquadrant.com) wrote: > > It also means that monitoring tools must run as superuser to see > > information they require, which to me is a total showstopper. > > We've already got *far* too much of that going on for my taste. I'd > love to see a comprehensive solution to this problem which allows > monitoring systems to run w/o superuser privileges.
Yeah, we need a CAP_MONITOR capability thingy. (CAP_BACKUP would be great too -- essentially "read only but read everything") -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
