Re: [HACKERS] Postgres acl (fwd)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu (Thomas G. Lockhart)
Cc: darrenk@insightdist.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 1998-01-07T02:23:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > > > IMHO, the system tables should _never_ be directly modifiable by anyone > > other than the superuser/dba. The rest of the population should have to > > use a command of some sort that can be grant/revoked by said superuser/dba. > > Are there any maintenance operations which require a "delete from pg_xxx"? If > not, then we could just modify the parser (or the executor?) to check the table > name and not allow insert/delete from any table whose name starts with "pg_". Had > to ask, although I'm sure this is too easy to actually work :) Interesting thought. Wonder if it would work? -- Bruce Momjian maillist@candle.pha.pa.us