Re: Open Source Database article

Yury Bokhoncovich <byg@center-f1.ru>

From: Yury Bokhoncovich <byg@center-f1.ru>
To: Christoph Dalitz <christoph.dalitz@hs-niederrhein.de>
Cc: <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-09-23T05:38:54Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Hello!

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Christoph Dalitz wrote:

> I would rather prefer honest comments both on the strengths and flaws
> of PostgreSQL. Eg. PostgreSQl is particularly weak on security aspects
> (every user has CreateTable rights, no schema support, no role privileges),

It's better not have that weird way how role privileges work on Sybase.;-)
Agreed, that it's bad that me as DBA can't restrict userz from CREATE/DROP
tables.:-(

And btw pg_hba.conf can be done in MySQL db/user/host tables way.:)


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