Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>
>>Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>
>
>>I thought about that but what we have in the backend now is read-only
>>which basically could be done using COPY, so I don't see any security
>>value to moving them out. They are super-user only just like COPY.
>
>
> The you-can-do-it-with-COPY argument doesn't apply to pg_ls_dir, nor to
> pg_stat_file, and I find it unconvincing even for pg_read_file. COPY
> isn't at all friendly for trying to read binary files, for instance.
pg_file_read returns text which isn't binary-friendly either.
Regards,
Andreas
