Re: [v9.1] Add security hook on initialization of instance

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Cc: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-06-15T00:22:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
2010/6/14 KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>:
> On the hook, I'd like to obtain security context of the client process
> which connected to the PostgreSQL instance. It is not available at the
> _PG_init() phase, because clients don't connect yet.

Can't you just call getpeercon() the first time you need the context
and cache it in a backend-local variable?  Then you don't need a hook
at all.

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