Re: Upcoming re-releases

From: Florian Weimer <fw(at)deneb(dot)enyo(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Upcoming re-releases
Date: 2006-02-11 14:04:00
Message-ID: 87hd76at67.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de
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* Tom Lane:

> Actually, it's "because it's certain to be there and be accessible to
> unprivileged users".

Isn't this a bit problematic because any local user can impersonate a
PostgreSQL backend which has been shut down?

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