Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:
http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches
I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> En Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:33:34 -0400 (EDT)
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> escribi?:
>
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian dijo:
> > >
> > > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > >
> > > > > If you want to put in security restrictions that are actually useful,
> > > > > where is the code to verify that PGPASSWORDFILE points at a
> > > > > non-world-readable file? That needs to be there now, not later, or
> > > > > we'll have people moaning about backward compatibility when we finally
> > > > > do plug that hole.
> > > >
> > > > Agreed.
> > >
> > > Point taken, will look into it later.
> >
> > Here is some code from postmaster.c that may help:
>
> Thank you. Patch attached. Note that it also checks group access; I think
> that is desired as well.
>
> --
> Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
> "Cuando ma?ana llegue pelearemos segun lo que ma?ana exija" (Mowgli)
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