Why is ALLOW_ABSOLUTE_DBPATHS unsafe? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From murphy pope
Subject Why is ALLOW_ABSOLUTE_DBPATHS unsafe?
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Msg-id F175T5n9dtHXZkaIZrb00000f82@hotmail.com
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The "Managing Databases" section of the Administrator's Guide says that
absolute DB paths introduce a security risk.

The CREATE DATABASE documentation says that there are security *AND* data
integrity issues involved with absolute DB paths.

Maybe I'm just not devious enough, but I can't figure out what the risks
are.  Can anyone enlighten me?

Also, why are relative DB paths completely disallowed.  I can see that you
would have to store the location relative to the cluster's path, but I must
be missing something here too.  Thanks for any ideas.

  -- Murphy

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