Re: search path security issue?

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: search path security issue?
Date: 2017-10-08 18:34:36
Message-ID: f3ee3b67-82ee-9a67-23be-c6ba199a80fd@joeconway.com
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On 10/06/2017 12:52 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> It would be a nice feature to have in general, like a "basic guc
> permissions" thing. At least allowing a superuser to prevent exactly
> this. You could argue the same thing for example for memory parameters
> and such. We have no permissions at all when it comes to userset gucs
> today -- and of course, if something should be added about this, it
> should be done in a way that works for all the userset variables, not
> just search_path. 

+1

I have wished for exactly that more than once before.

Joe

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