Re: Limit on number of users in postgresql? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John D. Burger
Subject Re: Limit on number of users in postgresql?
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Msg-id 049BFD34-590E-4078-928B-AA83954170FE@mitre.org
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In response to Re: Limit on number of users in postgresql?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

> Since the tables you need to touch are all shared, it's conceivable
> that
> this could be hacked around, but it seems awfully messy.  Another
> consideration is that this'd significantly increase the amount of work
> done before validating that the connection request is authorized,

Yah, I thought the chicken-and-egg issue might be the nub of it - it
sure feels more secure to avoid accessing any tables at all 'til you
know what kind of access the user has.

- John Burger
   MITRE

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