Hi,
On 6/22/22 5:35 PM, Jacob Champion wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 8:10 AM Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:
>> On the contrary, I would argue that not having the identifier for the
>> external "user" available is a security concern. Ideally you want to be
>> able to trace actions inside Postgres to the actual user that invoked them.
> If auditing is also the use case for SYSTEM_USER, you'll probably want
> to review the arguments for making it available to parallel workers
> that were made in the other thread [1].
Thanks Jacob for your feedback.
I did some testing initially around the parallel workers and did not see
any issues at that time.
I just had another look and I agree that the parallel workers case needs
to be addressed.
I'll have a closer look to what you have done in [1].
Thanks
Bertrand
[1]https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/793d990837ae5c06a558d58d62de9378ab525d83.camel%40vmware.com