Re: leaky views, yet again - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: leaky views, yet again
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Msg-id 28710.1286304488@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: leaky views, yet again  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> On 05.10.2010 21:08, Greg Stark wrote:
>> If the users that have select access on the view don't have DDL access
>> doesn't that make them leak-proof for those users?

> No. You can use built-in functions for leaking data as well.

There's a difference between "can be used to extract data wholesale"
and "can be used to probe for the existence of a specific value".
We might need to start using more specific terminology than "leak".
        regards, tom lane


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