Re: pageinspect: Hash index support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeff Janes
Subject Re: pageinspect: Hash index support
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In response to Re: pageinspect: Hash index support  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: pageinspect: Hash index support  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 12:19 AM, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:

Note: the patch checks if a superuser is calling the new functions,
which is a good thing.

If we only have the bytea functions and the user needs to supply the raw pages themselves, rather than having the function go get the raw page for you, is there any reason to restrict the interpretation function to super users?  I guess if we don't trust the C coded functions not to dereference bogus data in harmful ways?

Cheers,

Jeff


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