Goulet, Dick wrote: > And in my book the executables are > of zero value whereas the data files, and their contained data, are > of infinite value. So under your scheme we're protecting the least > valuable part of the system at the expense of the most valuable.
No, there is no expense in that sense. We are protecting as much as possible while leaving as little as possible vulnerable. The fact that the data files are owned by postgres is merely a necessary evil because the database would otherwise be unusable. But there is no reason to have more than that owned by postgres, even if it is of little value. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
