Ken Tanzer <ken.tan...@gmail.com> writes:
>> You will for example be making it awfully difficult for them to use
>> \copy, \i, \e, \g, the list goes on.

> I'm not really eager to go down this path, but nonetheless it's not 
> obvious to me why giving psql a lobotomy (or hopefully a careful 
> surgical tweak) to disable the "\!" functionality would impact all those 
> other functions.

No, you missed the point: those functions, as well as others, are
useless unless psql is running inside a filesystem that the user has
(easy) read/write access to.  psql is really, really meant to be run
on the client side.

                        regards, tom lane

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