Re: Big problem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Big problem
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Msg-id 11545.1085410163@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Big problem  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
Responses Re: Big problem  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
Re: Big problem  (Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>)
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> Hmmm - I agree it's difficult, but somehow I think it's something we 
> should do.  Just imagine if some major user of postgres did it - they'd 
> be screaming blue murder...

Shrug.  Superusers can *always* shoot themselves in the foot in Postgres.
Try "delete from pg_proc", for instance.  This sounds right up there
with the notion of preventing a Unix superuser from doing "rm -rf /".
        regards, tom lane


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