Re: BUG #1830: Non-super-user must be able to copy from a

From: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #1830: Non-super-user must be able to copy from a
Date: 2005-08-19 05:09:54
Message-ID: 430569A2.80405@opencloud.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> writes:
>
>>It sounds like what you really want is the ability to grant something
>>like FILE access without granting all superuser rights? Sounds like a
>>feature request, not a bug, to me :-)
>
>
> AFAICT, the complaint really boils down to there not being any support
> for COPY-from-client in the JDBC driver.

Bernard was also objecting to the overhead of pushing the data down a
TCP pipe when it's already available locally, I think.. I didn't find
any real difference there when I compared the two methods, though.

-O

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