Re: security checks for largeobjects?

From: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: security checks for largeobjects?
Date: 2009-06-23 01:38:59
Message-ID: 4A403233.4090700@ak.jp.nec.com
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David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:31:45AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
>>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:18:51PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>>> MED is management of external data, whereas the large objects are
>>>> internal, no?
>>> It depends on your definition. The lo interface is pretty much to
>>> objects on the file system directly.
>> LO's are transaction-controlled, and they're not (readily)
>> accessible from outside the database. Seems rather completely
>> different from regular filesystem files.
>
> Not according to SQL/MED.
>
>> (In any case, there wasn't anything I liked about SQL/MED's ideas
>> about external files, so I'm not in favor of modeling LO management
>> after that.)
>
> Good point ;)
>
> Cheers,
> David.

I would like to develop the feature independent from SQL/MED.

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KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>

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