Re: Largeobject Access Controls (r2460)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Largeobject Access Controls (r2460)
Date: 2009-12-11 04:23:45
Message-ID: 9305.1260505425@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> OK, I'll add the following description in the documentation of pg_largeobject.

> <structname>pg_largeobject</structname> should not be readable by the
> public, since the catalog contains data in large objects of all users.

This is going to be a problem, because it will break applications that
expect to be able to read pg_largeobject. Like, say, pg_dump.

regards, tom lane

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