Re: Editing config files which are not in database directory

2009/10/1 Andrus <kobruleht2(at)hot(dot)ee>:
> Debian server standard installation places pg_hba.conf, pg_ident.conf,
> postgresql.conf , start.conf files to  /etc/postgresql/8.3/data
> Database cluster is in /var/lib/postgresql/8.3/data
>
> Trying to edit pg_hba.conf  and postgresql.conf  from pgAdmin 1.10.0 from
> windows causes errors and shows empty file:
>
> ERROR:  absolute path not allowed
> CONTEXT:  SQL function "pg_file_length" statement 1
> STATEMENT:  SELECT pg_file_read('/etc/postgresql/8.3/data/pg_hba.conf', 0,
> pg_file_length('/etc/postgresql/8.3/data/pg_hba.conf'))
>
> ERROR:  could not stat file "postgresql.conf": No such file or directory
> CONTEXT:  SQL function "pg_file_length" statement 1
> STATEMENT:  SELECT pg_file_read('postgresql.conf', 0,
> pg_file_length('postgresql.conf'))
>
> How to edit conf files from pgAdmin in this case?

Unless you're running pgAdmin directly on the server, you can't I'm
afraid. This is a security restriction in the adminpack contrib module
in PostgreSQL itself.

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Dave Page
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