| From: | "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| Subject: | Re: [Bizgres-general] WAL bypass for INSERT, UPDATE and |
| Date: | 2005-12-30 14:53:33 |
| Message-ID: | 56737.68.143.134.146.1135954413.squirrel@www.dunslane.net |
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Simon Riggs said:
>
> Following Andrew's concerns, I'd also note that ALTER TABLE requires a
> much higher level of privilege to operate than does COPY. That sounds
> like it will make things more secure, but all it does is open up the
> administrative rights, since full ownership rights must be obtained
> merely to load data.
>
Yeah. And since a role can own a table you could have a role and add lots of
users to it ....
My concern is more about making plain that this is for special operations,
not normal operations. Or maybe I have misunderstood the purpose.
cheers
andrew
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