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Re: Query on pg_settings view

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Greetings,

* Laurenz Albe (laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Ronen Nofar wrote:
> > I have a weird case when running a query on  the pg_settings view.
> > I have two users, first one is the default user - postgres which is a superuser
> > and another one is a role which i had created, i called it test_role and it's not a superuser.
> > When I run a select on pg_settings with these two users I recieve different results.
> 
> That is intentional, because some settings should only be
> visible for superusers, for example everything that has to
> do with the operating system (location of configuration file
> or socket directories).

This isn't quite correct any longer- with PG10, we have a default role
called 'pg_read_all_settings' which can be GRANT'd to other roles to
allow viewing of all settings, even those previously restricted to
superuser-only.

Thanks!

Stephen

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