Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Is that wrong? Yes. Looking at the C file, I see what you mean. Let
> me update the README.adminpack file. read_file is already in the
> backend code, and was in 8.1.X too.
I wonder if we should take pg_read_file (and the rest of genfile.c)
back out of the backend and stick them into contrib/adminpack. The
argument for having them in the backend was always pretty weak to me.
In particular, a DBA who doesn't want them in his system for security
reasons has no simple way to get rid of them if they're in core, but
not installing a contrib module is easy enough.
regards, tom lane
