| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andreas(dot)Zeugswetter(at)telecom(dot)at, pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Permissions on copy |
| Date: | 1998-02-20 17:10:29 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.NEB.3.95.980220120859.11437K-100000@hub.org |
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On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Two things. First was a separate COPY priviledge, which I vote against.
> I see no real value to it, except to work around the problem that COPY
> doesn't use rules.
Okay, I may be totally out in left field here (ie. unrelated), but
what stops a user from doing a 'COPY out' on a table that they don't have
SELECT privileges on? Kind of negates 'REVOKE ALL...', no?
> Second, there was the idea of making copy allow a real select statement
> and not just a table name. If we do that, all goes through the
> executor, and you get view and rules working properly. May have some
> performance penalty, though it probabably will be minor.
This sounds reasonable...
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