Re: System views for versions reporting

Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>

From: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2025-11-16T16:45:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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> On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 09:27:23PM +0200, Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 06:21:33PM GMT, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > FWIW, I think the 0004 patch is about to be mostly obsoleted by
> > Andrei's proposal at [1].  To the extent that it's not obsoleted,
> > I question whether it's something we want at all, given the ground
> > rule that unprivileged users are not supposed to have access to info
> > about the server's filesystem.
> 
> To be clear -- I don't have a case for 0004 myself, except some vague
> expectation that in certain situations it could be useful to know which
> shared objects are loaded, even if they are not Postgres modules. Based
> on the feedback from the original thread [2], there were couple similar
> opinions, maybe folks could reply here whether [1] would be sufficient
> for them.

Better late than never, rebased and dropped 0004.