Re: profiling connection overhead

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
>> Please explain more precisely what is wrong with SET SESSION
>> AUTHORIZATION / SET ROLE.
>
> 1) Session GUCS do not change with a SET ROLE (this is a TODO I haven't
> had any time to work on)
>
> 2) Users can always issue their own SET ROLE and then "hack into" other
> users' data.

Makes sense.  It would be nice to fix those issues, independent of
anything else.

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