Re: HOT - whats next ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: HOT - whats next ?
Date
Msg-id 22212.1173127524@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: HOT - whats next ?  ("Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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"Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> The earlier objections to AdminPack were about functions that write to
> files. These functions just read data, not write them. So there's no
> objection there, AFAICS.

Au contraire, both reading and writing are issues.  But I had
misunderstood your original proposal as being for functions that would
read/write arbitrary files, so limiting it to access to database tables
(and making it superuser-only) probably is sufficient to cure that complaint.
        regards, tom lane


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