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From: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
To: Antonin Houska <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: POC: Carefully exposing information without authentication
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 09:15:48 -0500
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On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 8:56 AM Antonin Houska <[email protected]> wrote:

> 1. Add a new field to the PGconn structure


This kind of defeats one of the major strengths of this patch, which is
allowing systems that don't speak the protocol to get at this information.


> Regarding configuration, I'd prefer a single GUC. The value can be a
> comma-separated list of keywords, each representing particular piece of
> information to be exposed.
>

Yes, I could see some advantages to that, although I still like the
simplicity of separate boolean values. I've no strong feelings either way.
Let's see if others weigh in.

Thanks for looking over this patch!

Cheers,
Greg


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