Re: Error from the foreign RDBMS on a foreign table I have no privilege on

At Wed, 08 Jun 2022 04:38:02 +0200, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> wrote in 
> If anything, it should be done in the FDW, because it is only necessary if the
> FDW calls the remote site during planning.
> 
> The question is: is this a bug in postgres_fdw that should be fixed?

It's depends on what we think about allowing remote access trials
through unprivileged foreign table in any style.  It won't be a
problem if the system is configured appropriately but too-frequent
estimate accesses via unprivileged foreign tables might be regarded as
an attack attempt.

regards.

-- 
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center