Re: Default permissions of system catalogs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Default permissions of system catalogs
Date
Msg-id 20020108162338.GA15779@wolff.to
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In response to Re: Default permissions of system catalogs  (Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>)
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:48:29AM -0000, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> If so, this would break pgAdmin for any users who are not the superuser on
> their system as the majority of it's operation relies on examining the
> system catalogues. In this case I would *strongly* object.

The impression I got was that he was talking about changing to a consistant
interpretation for access rights data.

If this was done, it should be easy to change the initially security for
pg_* tables to include select access for public.


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