Re: Default permissions of system catalogs

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)[66(dot)92(dot)219(dot)49]>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: "'Peter Eisentraut'" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Default permissions of system catalogs
Date: 2002-01-08 16:23:38
Message-ID: 20020108162338.GA15779@wolff.to
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:48:29AM -0000,
Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
>
> If so, this would break pgAdmin for any users who are not the superuser on
> their system as the majority of it's operation relies on examining the
> system catalogues. In this case I would *strongly* object.

The impression I got was that he was talking about changing to a consistant
interpretation for access rights data.

If this was done, it should be easy to change the initially security for
pg_* tables to include select access for public.

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