On 4.12.2011 17:10, Tom Lane wrote: > Tomas Vondra <t...@fuzzy.cz> writes: >> Anyway, the code I posted does not fail because of pg_stat_activity, it >> fails because it attempts for find the dbname/username for the backends >> (read from pg_stat_activity). > > Well, get_database_name tries to do a syscache lookup, and the syscache > infrastructure isn't working yet. It is possible to read a shared > catalog at this stage, but you have to use lower-level access mechanisms > --- for an example with some comments, look at GetDatabaseTuple in > postinit.c.
Great, this seems to work perfectly. What about the pg_stat_activity - is it safe to access that from auth hook or is that just a coincidence that it works (and might stop working in the future)? Tomas -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
