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Re: [HACKERS] Postgres acl (fwd)

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1998-01-07T02:23:13Z

> >
> > 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?

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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us