Re: Privilege for seeing queries using pg_stat_get_backend_activity

Marc Munro <marc@bloodnok.com> writes:
> I want certain users to be able to examine running queries using
> pg_stat_get_backend_activity.  Unfortunately, this will only show other
> users' activity if you have superuser privilege.
> I do not want to give monitoring users superuser privilege, but I do
> need to allow them to perform monitoring tasks.
> I've tried tricks with security definer functions but this does not help
> as pg_stat_get_backend_activity explicitly checks for the caller being a
> superuser.

That should work fine, as the test is on the current effective userid
which will change inside a security-definer function.  Take a closer
look at what you did, or post a complete example if you can't get it
to work.

            regards, tom lane