Re: Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review]

Fujii Masao escribió:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com> wrote:

> >> Is it safe to write something in the directory other than data
> >> directory
> >> via SQL?
> >>
> >> postgres user usually has the write permission for the configuration
> >> directory like /etc/postgresql?
> >
> > As postgresql.conf will also be in same path and if user can change that,
> > then what's the problem with postgresql.auto.conf
>
> If the configuration directory like /etc is owned by root and only root has
> a write permission for it, the user running PostgreSQL server would not
> be able to update postgresql.auto.conf there. OTOH, even in that case,
> a user can switch to root and update the configuration file there. I'm not
> sure whether the configuration directory is usually writable by the user
> running PostgreSQL server in Debian or Ubuntu, though.

Yes it is -- the /etc/postgresql/<version>/<cluster> directory (where
postgresql.conf resides) is owned by user postgres.

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