| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Rod Taylor <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Security Issue.. |
| Date: | 2002-04-15 01:33:37 |
| Message-ID: | 200204150133.g3F1XcJ09706@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Rod Taylor wrote:
> I'm running into a minor issue with security in regards to users being
> able to see constructs that they have no access too.
>
> The solution? Information_Schema coupled with no direct access to
> pg_catalog. Internals can use pg_catalog, possibly super users, but
> regular users shouldn't be able to do any reads / writes to it
> directly -- as per spec with definition_schema.
Is the problem that people can see system catalog columns that should be
more secure?
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