AW: AW: [HACKERS] initdb problems on Solaris - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas SB
Subject AW: AW: [HACKERS] initdb problems on Solaris
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Msg-id 219F68D65015D011A8E000006F8590C603FDC213@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> > I think this setup has the advatage, that we could someday issue
> > setuid() calls for "dba and untrusted stored procedures", 
> which would 
> > imho be a very handy feature.
> 
> That would require you to set up a Unix user for every Postgres user,
> which is certainly not necassary in the general case.

Yes, we would somehow need to distinguish between
OS users and DB only users.

Andreas


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