Re: WAL file location

Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>

From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>, Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-07-31T04:01:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 11:51 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> >> CREATE DATABASE foo WITH LOCATION = 'BAR'
> > And requires you to be a database superuser anyway.

> CREATE DATABASE does not require superuser privs, only createdb
> which is not usually considered particular dangerous.

Pardon my misspeak, as there are those two components to the privs.  My error. 
Typically normal users aren't given create database privileges -- at least on 
my systems.

And, again, I'm completely for the idea of this being in postgresql.conf.  But 
I'm not convinced that the security angle is a valid reason.  The consistency 
reason is enough alone to warrant it being that way.
-- 
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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