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Re: [HACKERS] Postgres acl (fwd)

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

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From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>, Darren King <darrenk@insightdist.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-01-07T02:18:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:

> Are there any maintenance operations which require a "delete from pg_xxx"? If
> not, then we could just modify the parser (or the executor?) to check the table
> name and not allow insert/delete from any table whose name starts with "pg_". Had
> to ask, although I'm sure this is too easy to actually work :)

	As long as what you are suggesting doesn't break "drop database", "drop
table", "drop view"...I realize that this is obvious, but...

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org