On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 03:57:37PM -0800, Harold Giménez wrote:
> > It also means that monitoring tools must run as superuser to see
> > information they require, which to me is a total showstopper.
>
>
> Well, the fact is that if you don't run monitoring tools as superuser,
> there may not be enough connection slots available anyways, in cases
> where actual usage is consuming all of max_connections, and only the
> reserved slots are available. So in a way it's already unreliable to
> run monitoring as non-superuser unfortunately.
You might need to run as superuser in these cases, but it is hard to see
why would need to do that in the normal case.
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