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Re: Largeobject Access Controls (r2460)

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-12-11T04:23:45Z
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Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp> writes:
> OK, I'll add the following description in the documentation of pg_largeobject.

>    <structname>pg_largeobject</structname> should not be readable by the
>    public, since the catalog contains data in large objects of all users.

This is going to be a problem, because it will break applications that
expect to be able to read pg_largeobject.  Like, say, pg_dump.

			regards, tom lane