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Re: [Bizgres-general] WAL bypass for INSERT, UPDATE and


  • From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
  • To: <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
  • Cc: <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>, <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: [Bizgres-general] WAL bypass for INSERT, UPDATE and
  • Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 08:53:33 -0600 (CST)
  • Message-id: <56737.68.143.134.146.1135954413.squirrel@www.dunslane.net> <text/plain>

Simon Riggs said:

>
> Following Andrew's concerns, I'd also note that ALTER TABLE requires a
> much higher level of privilege to operate than does COPY. That sounds
> like it will make things more secure, but all it does is open up the
> administrative rights, since full ownership rights must be obtained
> merely to load data.
>

Yeah. And since a role can own a table you could have a role and add lots of
users to it ....

My concern is more about making plain that this is for special operations,
not normal operations. Or maybe I have misunderstood the purpose.

cheers

andrew







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