Re: Views, views, views: Summary of Arguments - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Views, views, views: Summary of Arguments
Date
Msg-id 24884.1116003473@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Views, views, views: Summary of Arguments  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> Andrew, Merlin,
>> My approach was to remove all significant permissions (including on the
>> catalog) from public and regrant them to a pseudopublic group,
>> comprising designated users. The designated users would notice no
>> difference at all, while everyone else would be able to see only what
>> was explicitly granted to them. But there would be lots of testing and
>> thinking to be done before releasing it into the wild :-)

> <plug>Doesn't it seem like a really complete set of system views (based on 
> information_schema or otherwise) would potentially allow securing the 
> pg_catalog?</plug>

It'd just move the issues to a different place ... you still have to
test and think ;-)
        regards, tom lane


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Josh Berkus
Date:
Subject: Re: Views, views, views: Summary of Arguments
Next
From: Andrew Dunstan
Date:
Subject: Re: Views, views, views: Summary of Arguments