From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Rod Taylor <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca>, Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Security Issue.. |
Date: | 2002-04-15 02:38:26 |
Message-ID: | 200204150238.g3F2cQO16994@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> But having said that, I do not foresee being able to replace direct
> pg_catalog access with INFORMATION_SCHEMA views anytime soon. There
> are too many clients out there that are used to doing it that way.
>
> Moreover, pg_dump will never be able to work off INFORMATION_SCHEMA,
> because it needs to get at Postgres-specific information that will
> not be available from a spec-compliant set of views. I'm fairly
> dubious about converting psql, even.
>
> Rod's welcome to work on developing a set of spec-compliant
> INFORMATION_SCHEMA views ... and maybe he can even turn off public
> read access to pg_catalog in his own installation ... but he should
> not expect us to accept a patch that makes that the default anytime
> in the foreseeable future.
Yes, it would be nice to have spec-compliant stuff. However, things
like psql really get into those catalogs and grab detailed information
that is probably not covered the the spec.
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