Re: lastval exposes information that currval does not - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Phil Frost
Subject Re: lastval exposes information that currval does not
Date
Msg-id 20060727152100.GA10960@unununium.org
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In response to Re: lastval exposes information that currval does not  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: lastval exposes information that currval does not
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All right, I give up. I guess no one seems to want to admit this is a
bad security policy, or accurately document it. Does that make it an
easter egg?

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 01:59:43PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> OK, text again updated:
> 
>        For schemas, allows access to objects contained in the specified
>        schema (assuming that the objects' own privilege requirements are
>        also met).  Essentially this allows the grantee to <quote>look up</>
>        objects within the schema.  Without this permission, it is still
>        possible to see the object names, e.g. by querying the system tables.
>        Also, after revoking this permission, existing backends might have
>        statements that have previously performed this lookup, so this is not
>        a completely secure way to prevent object access.


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