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We can immediately make use of it in pg_signal_backend(), which previously fetched the process type from the backend status array with pgstat_get_backend_type_by_proc_number(). That was correct but felt a little questionable to me: backend status should be for observability purposes only, not for permission checks. Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b77e4962-a64a-43db-81a1-580444b3e8f5@iki.fi
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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