Re: Open 7.3 items

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Open 7.3 items
Date: 2002-08-27 22:10:27
Message-ID: 14167.1030486227@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> This should cause no problem, because we have no
> cross-database communication; it should be impossible for "george(at)dummy"
> to have any connection with database "test".

Not so; you need look no further than the owner column of pg_database
to find a case where people can see usernames that might be local to
other databases. Group membership lists might well contain users
from multiple databases, too.

regards, tom lane

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