| From: | Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] postgres_fdw super user checks |
| Date: | 2017-12-12 04:59:00 |
| Message-ID: | CAMkU=1zaweVuZ9bPxBwHWOqe64Ffr7yiqCyf2z_LadpQXzAzvQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Ashutosh Bapat
> <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> > I think the real behaviour can be described as something like this:
> >
> > "Only superusers may connect to foreign servers without password
> > authentication, so always specify the <literal>password</literal>
> > option for user mappings that may be used by non-superusers." But
> > which user mappings may be used by non-superusers can not be defined
> > without explaining views owned by superusers. I don't think we should
> > be talking about views in that part of documentation.
>
> Well, if we don't, then I'm not sure we can really make this clear.
>
> Anyhow, I've committed the patch to master for now; we can keep
> arguing about what, if anything, to do for back-branch documentation.
>
Thank you for the changes and commit. Alas, I don't know how to document
this clearly, either.
Cheers,
Jeff
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