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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Directory/File Access Permissions for COPY and Generic File Access Functions
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Msg-id 27818.1413430462@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Directory/File Access Permissions for COPY and Generic File Access Functions  ("Brightwell, Adam" <adam.brightwell@crunchydatasolutions.com>)
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"Brightwell, Adam" <adam.brightwell@crunchydatasolutions.com> writes:
> The attached patch for review implements a directory permission system that
> allows for providing a directory read/write capability to directories for
> COPY TO/FROM and Generic File Access Functions to non-superusers.

TBH, this sounds like it's adding a lot of mechanism and *significant*
risk of unforeseen security issues in order to solve a problem that we
do not need to solve.  The field demand for such a feature is just about
indistinguishable from zero.
        regards, tom lane

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