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From Teodor Sigaev
Subject Re: tsearch_core patch: permissions and security issues
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Msg-id 46718E89.4030508@sigaev.ru
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In response to Re: tsearch_core patch: permissions and security issues  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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>> But they still need some more thought about permissions, because AFAICS
>> mucking with a configuration can invalidate some other user's data.
> 
> ouch. could mucking with a configuration create a corrupt index?

Depending on what you mean 'corrupted'. It will not corrupted as non-readable 
or cause backend crash. But usage of such tsvector column could be limited - not 
all words will be searchable.

> This sounds sort of analogous to the issues collation bring up.

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Teodor Sigaev                                   E-mail: teodor@sigaev.ru
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