Re: Really stupid question(?)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bear Giles <bgiles(at)coyotesong(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Really stupid question(?)
Date: 2002-05-23 20:10:39
Message-ID: 23309.1022184639@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bear Giles <bgiles(at)coyotesong(dot)com> writes:
> But the problem is that knowledgeable security administrators can
> replace the common hardcoded values with their own. How do you allow
> this to be easily done?

Configuration parameters?

> One possibility that occured to me was that dynamic libraries would
> handle this nicely. There's even some support for dynamic libraries
> in the user-defined functions, so this wouldn't be a totally
> unprecedented idea.
> But this would be a new way of using dynamic libraries.

You've lost me completely. What exactly are you suggesting?

regards, tom lane

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