Re: [Bizgres-general] WAL bypass for INSERT, UPDATE and

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, <kleptog@svana.org>, <gsstark@mit.edu>, <pg@rbt.ca>, <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2005-12-30T14:53:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Simon Riggs said:

>
> Following Andrew's concerns, I'd also note that ALTER TABLE requires a
> much higher level of privilege to operate than does COPY. That sounds
> like it will make things more secure, but all it does is open up the
> administrative rights, since full ownership rights must be obtained
> merely to load data.
>

Yeah. And since a role can own a table you could have a role and add lots of
users to it ....

My concern is more about making plain that this is for special operations,
not normal operations. Or maybe I have misunderstood the purpose.

cheers

andrew