Re: reuse sysids security hole? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera Munoz
Subject Re: reuse sysids security hole?
Date
Msg-id 20030812201127.GC16697@dcc.uchile.cl
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In response to Re: reuse sysids security hole?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: reuse sysids security hole?
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On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:01:33PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Can I have a TODO for this?
> 
> * Prevent accidental re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups
> 
> The other part of the thread was something like
> 
> * Prevent dropping user that still owns objects, or auto-drop the objects

What about the use of a shared sequence object to generate sysids?

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