Re: Patch for - Allow server logs to be remotely read

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Dhanaraj(dot)M(at)Sun(dot)COM, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Patch for - Allow server logs to be remotely read
Date: 2006-06-08 14:17:07
Message-ID: 27165.1149776227@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Is that wrong? Yes. Looking at the C file, I see what you mean. Let
> me update the README.adminpack file. read_file is already in the
> backend code, and was in 8.1.X too.

I wonder if we should take pg_read_file (and the rest of genfile.c)
back out of the backend and stick them into contrib/adminpack. The
argument for having them in the backend was always pretty weak to me.
In particular, a DBA who doesn't want them in his system for security
reasons has no simple way to get rid of them if they're in core, but
not installing a contrib module is easy enough.

regards, tom lane

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