Re: Listing views

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Olivier Guilyardi <ml(at)xung(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Listing views
Date: 2004-08-10 18:07:09
Message-ID: 29962.1092161229@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Olivier Guilyardi <ml(at)xung(dot)org> writes:
> Doug McNaught wrote:
>> 'SELECT version();' should work. There will be no permission issues
>> with calling that function unless you set the database up that way--it
>> has PUBLIC execute permission by default.

> Good

In theory it's possible for that to fail in 7.3: if someone makes their
own function named version() and then alters the default search path so
that their function is found before the one in pg_catalog, then the
wrong function would be invoked.

In practice I'd say this falls in the category of "don't do that then".

regards, tom lane

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