From: Greg Williamson <gwilliamson39@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: allow a user to see current_query in pg_stat_activity in 8.4
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:34:34 -0800 (PST)
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Tom --
>Greg Williamson <gwilliamson39@yahoo.com> writes:
>> We want to create a role used by a monitor to check for "<IDLE> in Transaction" with the most restrictive permissions we can on a 8.4.13 instance.
>
>> The user has been granted connect privilege to the database and some limited permissions to user tabhles that need to be monitored. But pg_stat_activity shows only "<insufficient privilege>"
>
>Yup. You can only see the query of another session if (1) you are a
>superuser, or (2) you are the same user the other session is logged in
>as. Table permissions have nothing to do with this.
Thanks for the swi8ft answer even if wasn't the one I was hoping for. ;-}
Another solution suggests itself then ... thanks!
Greg
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