| From: | Alvaro Herrera Munoz <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Postgresql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: reuse sysids security hole? |
| Date: | 2003-08-12 20:11:27 |
| Message-ID: | 20030812201127.GC16697@dcc.uchile.cl |
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:01:33PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Can I have a TODO for this?
>
> * Prevent accidental re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups
>
> The other part of the thread was something like
>
> * Prevent dropping user that still owns objects, or auto-drop the objects
What about the use of a shared sequence object to generate sysids?
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