Feature request dblink: Security issue - dblink user+password parameters must be optional

From: Hermann Muster <Hermann(dot)Muster(at)gmx(dot)de>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Feature request dblink: Security issue - dblink user+password parameters must be optional
Date: 2009-01-28 07:52:43
Message-ID: glp2sa$7hj$1@news.hub.org
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When creating a view via DBLINK, the user=... and password=...
parameters shall be optional. If they are left out, then the current
user accessing the view shall be impersonated implicitely to the
"dblinked" database as well. Forcing anybody to hardcode a password
readable within the view definition should be an absolute DON'T!

Haven't found a better place to post this request. Hope the author of
dblink is reading it here, too. :-)

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