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Re: [v9.2] Add GUC sepgsql.client_label

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga@gmail.com>
Cc: Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>, PgHacker <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Joshua Brindle <jbrindle@tresys.com>
Date: 2012-01-31T13:06:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga@gmail.com> wrote:
> What about always allowing a transition to the default / postgresql.conf
> configured client label, so in the case of errors, or RESET, the transition
> to this domain is hardcoded to succeed. This would also be useful in
> conjunction with a connection pooler. This would still allow the option to
> prevent a back transition to non-default client labels.

I don't think you can make that work, because someone can still
attempt to RESET to a different value, and it's still not safe to make
that fail.

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Robert Haas
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