Re: proposal: hide application_name from other users

On 01/28/2014 12:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> For example, I would really like to GRANT an unpriv user access to the
>> WAL columns in pg_stat_replication so that I can monitor replication
>> delay without granting superuser permissions.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, why is that superuser-only at all?  AFAICS the
> hidden columns are just some LSNs ... what is the security argument
> for hiding them in the first place?

Beats me, I can't find any discussion on it at all.

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