Re: Why is lc_messages superuser only?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Why is lc_messages superuser only?
Date: 2007-07-23 15:20:57
Message-ID: 200707231720.57860.peter_e@gmx.net
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It is so that the user cannot "hide" log messages he causes by setting the
language to something that the administrator cannot understand. (There are
more conceivable scenarios of that sort, such as exploiting the
administrator's ad hoc log parsing tool.)

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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