From: | Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Subject: | Re: Big problem |
Date: | 2004-05-24 18:37:11 |
Message-ID: | 40B240D7.2070205@bigfoot.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>
>>Hmmm - I agree it's difficult, but somehow I think it's something we
>>should do. Just imagine if some major user of postgres did it - they'd
>>be screaming blue murder...
>
>
> Shrug. Superusers can *always* shoot themselves in the foot in Postgres.
> Try "delete from pg_proc", for instance. This sounds right up there
> with the notion of preventing a Unix superuser from doing "rm -rf /".
Why not simply add a flag "undeleteable" applicable only to super user?
In this way is enough in the initdb fase create the postgres user as
undeleateable.
I think this is resonable.
Regards
Gaetano Mendola
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