Re: Big problem

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
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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