Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> What happened to this patch?
It was rejected because SQL standard always requires an user mapping.
I agree about the decision, too.
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> Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> > contrib/dblink in 8.4 supports a server name by CREATE SERVER for connection
> > string, but it always requires an user-mapping (by CREATE USER MAPPING).
> > However, I think it should work user-mappings because it works when
> > the connection string is passed directly.
> >
> > The attached patch adds 'missing_ok' parameter to GetUserMapping() and
> > made dblink to use it. There should be no additional security issues here
> > because dblink's original security check works even for server name mode.
Regards,
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Takahiro Itagaki
NTT Open Source Software Center
