Re: Problem with recent permission changes commits

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:59:05AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> Decibel! wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:08:34AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> >> This is a problem. Our analytics software purposefully does not use a
> >> super user, you are going to force the use of superusers with admin and
> >> monitoring tools.
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> > Well, you could always create a wrapper function that is SECURITY
> > DEFINER...
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> Well from my perspective, it is nice that we don't have to install
> anything except a non privileged user to get what we need.
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> Really, if we change this we might as well also block all access to
> information_schema, the net effect is the same.

Info_schema should be checking permissions the same as, say, \d does.

What I think we *really* need is a set of views for people to use that
have appropriate security, instead of using pg_catalog directly.
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