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Re: pg_upgrade libraries check

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

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From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-05-29T09:11:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> is not going to happen.  Putting shared libraries into a
> postgres-writable directory will be seen (correctly) as a security hole
> of the first magnitude, not to mention that in many systems it'd require
> root privilege anyway to adjust the dynamic linker's search path.

It seems I keep forgetting about security concerns. Thanks for the
heads-up, will try to think about something else then. Damn.

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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