Permissions.md

Permissions

For security, Postgres doesn’t allow you to see queries from other users without being a superuser. However, you likely don’t want to run PgHero as a superuser. You can use SECURITY DEFINER to give non-superusers access to superuser functions.

With a superuser, run:

CREATE SCHEMA pghero;

-- view queries
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pghero.pg_stat_activity() RETURNS SETOF pg_stat_activity AS
$$
  SELECT * FROM pg_catalog.pg_stat_activity;
$$ LANGUAGE sql VOLATILE SECURITY DEFINER;

CREATE VIEW pghero.pg_stat_activity AS SELECT * FROM pghero.pg_stat_activity();

-- kill queries
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pghero.pg_terminate_backend(pid int) RETURNS boolean AS
$$
  SELECT * FROM pg_catalog.pg_terminate_backend(pid);
$$ LANGUAGE sql VOLATILE SECURITY DEFINER;

-- query stats
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pghero.pg_stat_statements() RETURNS SETOF pg_stat_statements AS
$$
  SELECT * FROM public.pg_stat_statements;
$$ LANGUAGE sql VOLATILE SECURITY DEFINER;

CREATE VIEW pghero.pg_stat_statements AS SELECT * FROM pghero.pg_stat_statements();

-- query stats reset
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pghero.pg_stat_statements_reset() RETURNS void AS
$$
  SELECT public.pg_stat_statements_reset();
$$ LANGUAGE sql VOLATILE SECURITY DEFINER;

-- suggested indexes
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pghero.pg_stats() RETURNS
TABLE(schemaname name, tablename name, attname name, null_frac real, avg_width integer, n_distinct real) AS
$$
  SELECT schemaname, tablename, attname, null_frac, avg_width, n_distinct FROM pg_catalog.pg_stats;
$$ LANGUAGE sql VOLATILE SECURITY DEFINER;

CREATE VIEW pghero.pg_stats AS SELECT * FROM pghero.pg_stats();

-- create user
CREATE ROLE pghero WITH LOGIN ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'secret';
GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE <dbname> TO pghero;
ALTER ROLE pghero SET search_path = pghero, pg_catalog, public;
GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA pghero TO pghero;
GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA pghero TO pghero;

Thanks

A big thanks to pganalyze for coming up with this approach for their collector.