Re: Really stupid question(?) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Really stupid question(?)
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Msg-id 23309.1022184639@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Really stupid question(?)  (Bear Giles <bgiles@coyotesong.com>)
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Bear Giles <bgiles@coyotesong.com> writes:
> But the problem is that knowledgeable security administrators can
> replace the common hardcoded values with their own.  How do you allow
> this to be easily done?

Configuration parameters?

> One possibility that occured to me was that dynamic libraries would
> handle this nicely.  There's even some support for dynamic libraries
> in the user-defined functions, so this wouldn't be a totally
> unprecedented idea.
> But this would be a new way of using dynamic libraries.

You've lost me completely.  What exactly are you suggesting?
        regards, tom lane


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