On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Euler Taveira de Oliveira
<euler@timbira.com> wrote:
> On 01-10-2011 17:44, Daniel Farina wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> ISTM it would be reasonably non-controversial to allow users to issue
>>> pg_cancel_backend against other sessions logged in as the same userID.
>>> The question is whether to go further than that, and if so how much.
>>
>> In *every* case -- and there are many -- where we've had people
>> express pain, this would have sufficed.
>>
> I see. What about passing this decision to DBA? I mean a GUC
> can_cancel_session = user, dbowner (default is '' -- only superuser). You
> can select one or both options. This GUC can only be changed by superuser.
Or how about making it a grantable database-level privilege?
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