Re: pgsql: Let installcheck-world pass against a server requiring a passwor

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Let installcheck-world pass against a server requiring a passwor
Date: 2014-06-20 02:21:06
Message-ID: 25848.1403230866@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> writes:
> Let installcheck-world pass against a server requiring a password.
> Give passwords to each user created in support of an ECPG connection
> test case. Use SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION, not a fresh connection, to
> reduce privileges during a dblink test case.

Hm ... is this reasonably secure? It seems like it's creating user
accounts with well-known passwords. The accounts might not be there
for long, but still, I'm not sure I'd care to run this against an
installed server on a machine with hostile users present.

(The problem might have been there even before your patch, but that
doesn't mean it's not a problem.)

regards, tom lane

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