Re: Open Source Database article

From: Yury Bokhoncovich <byg(at)center-f1(dot)ru>
To: Christoph Dalitz <christoph(dot)dalitz(at)hs-niederrhein(dot)de>
Cc: <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Open Source Database article
Date: 2002-09-23 05:38:54
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0209231230210.17382-100000@panda.center-f1.ru
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Hello!

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Christoph Dalitz wrote:

> I would rather prefer honest comments both on the strengths and flaws
> of PostgreSQL. Eg. PostgreSQl is particularly weak on security aspects
> (every user has CreateTable rights, no schema support, no role privileges),

It's better not have that weird way how role privileges work on Sybase.;-)
Agreed, that it's bad that me as DBA can't restrict userz from CREATE/DROP
tables.:-(

And btw pg_hba.conf can be done in MySQL db/user/host tables way.:)

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