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Re: Upcoming re-releases

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>

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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@commandprompt.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2006-02-11T14:04:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
* Tom Lane:

> Actually, it's "because it's certain to be there and be accessible to
> unprivileged users".

Isn't this a bit problematic because any local user can impersonate a
PostgreSQL backend which has been shut down?