Re: Big problem

Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>>Hmmm - I agree it's difficult, but somehow I think it's something we
>>should do. Just imagine if some major user of postgres did it - they'd
>>be screaming blue murder...
>
> Shrug. Superusers can *always* shoot themselves in the foot in Postgres.
> Try "delete from pg_proc", for instance. This sounds right up there
> with the notion of preventing a Unix superuser from doing "rm -rf /".

I have to agree.

FWIW, I've seen a unix superuser do a recursive chmod 777 on /, and I've
seen a Windows server admin recursively deny EVERYTHING from EVERYBODY
starting at c:\. In both cases, we found that's why we keep regular
backups ;-)

Joe