Re: proposal: psql \setfileref

hi

2016-10-04 9:18 GMT+02:00 Gilles Darold <gilles(dot)darold(at)dalibo(dot)com>:

> Le 03/10/2016 à 23:23, Gilles Darold a écrit :
> > Le 03/10/2016 à 23:03, Robert Haas a écrit :
> >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Gilles Darold <gilles(at)darold(dot)net>
> wrote:
> >>> 4) An other problem is that like this this patch will allow anyone to
> upload into a
> >>> column the content of any system file that can be read by postgres
> system user
> >>> and then allow non system user to read its content.
> >> I thought this was a client-side feature, so that it would let a
> >> client upload any file that the client can read, but not things that
> >> can only be read by the postgres system user.
> >>
> > Yes that's right, sorry for the noise, forget this fourth report.
> >
>
> After some more though there is still a security issue here. For a
> PostgreSQL user who also have login acces to the server, it is possible
> to read any file that the postgres system user can read, especially a
> .pgpass or a recovery.conf containing password.
>

here is new update - some mentioned issues are fixed + regress tests and
docs

regards

Pavel

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