Re: Open 7.3 items

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-27T22:10:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> This should cause no problem, because we have no
> cross-database communication; it should be impossible for "george@dummy"
> to have any connection with database "test".

Not so; you need look no further than the owner column of pg_database
to find a case where people can see usernames that might be local to
other databases.  Group membership lists might well contain users
from multiple databases, too.

			regards, tom lane