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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml4
-rw-r--r--src/backend/replication/walsender.c16
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 241131ce614..306af4e4544 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ postgres: <replaceable>user</> <replaceable>database</> <replaceable>host</> <re
<entry>One row per WAL sender process, showing process <acronym>ID</>,
user OID, user name, application name, client's address and port number,
time at which the server process began execution, current WAL sender
- state and transaction log location.
+ state and transaction log location. The columns detailing what exactly
+ the connection is doing are only visible if the user examining the view
+ is a superuser.
</entry>
</row>
diff --git a/src/backend/replication/walsender.c b/src/backend/replication/walsender.c
index 14b43d855ba..8a639234569 100644
--- a/src/backend/replication/walsender.c
+++ b/src/backend/replication/walsender.c
@@ -1141,8 +1141,20 @@ pg_stat_get_wal_senders(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
memset(nulls, 0, sizeof(nulls));
values[0] = Int32GetDatum(walsnd->pid);
- values[1] = CStringGetTextDatum(WalSndGetStateString(state));
- values[2] = CStringGetTextDatum(sent_location);
+ if (!superuser())
+ {
+ /*
+ * Only superusers can see details. Other users only get
+ * the pid value to know it's a walsender, but no details.
+ */
+ nulls[1] = true;
+ nulls[2] = true;
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ values[1] = CStringGetTextDatum(WalSndGetStateString(state));
+ values[2] = CStringGetTextDatum(sent_location);
+ }
tuplestore_putvalues(tupstore, tupdesc, values, nulls);
}