From: | Marcin Grondecki <ojciec(at)mtl(dot)pl> |
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To: | gerald(at)interface-business(dot)de |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, Carlos Vicente Altamirano <altacar(at)redes(dot)unam(dot)mx>, Charles Tassell <ctassell(at)isn(dot)net> |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] users in Postgresql |
Date: | 1999-11-02 17:49:35 |
Message-ID: | 381F242F.E0BC2846@mtl.pl |
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IMHO because this is _current_ implementation issue
you cannot be sure that some/all system catalogs will not change
in the future - making your program _very_ unhappy :)
postgres(at)taifun(dot)interface-business(dot)de wrote:
>
> > Btw., although direct UPDATEs to pg_shadow will seemingly succeed, you do
> > not want to do that. That's a bug.
>
> Peter, would you explain your statement please!
>
> Why somebody is able to UPDATE pg_shadow to create an user if that's a bug?
> And _why_ that's a bug?
>
> Gerald
>
> ************
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Marcin Grondecki
ojciec(at)mtl(dot)pl
*** I'm not a complete idiot - some parts are missing
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