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Document configuring a read-only connection, explain security issues #6

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simonw opened this issue Mar 13, 2021 · 1 comment
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Document configuring a read-only connection, explain security issues #6

simonw opened this issue Mar 13, 2021 · 1 comment
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simonw commented Mar 13, 2021

Best practice for this tool will be configuring a read-only role with access to an allow-list of tables, as described here: https://til.simonwillison.net/postgresql/read-only-postgresql-user

I'm going to continue supporting read-only transactions against a regular connection purely because Heroku charge $50/month minimum for the ability to add extra read-only users to a database.
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simonw commented Mar 14, 2021

As-of 88aae40 the tool requires a dedicated database alias called dashboard (that name can be changed using the DASHBOARD_DB_ALIAS setting).

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Basic DB alias instructions, refs #6, #16
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Release 0.12
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#6, #17, #42, #44, #47, #74, #75, #76, #77, #78, #79, #80, #81, #82, #83
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