Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > > Is that wrong? Yes. Looking at the C file, I see what you mean. Let > > me update the README.adminpack file. read_file is already in the > > backend code, and was in 8.1.X too. > > I wonder if we should take pg_read_file (and the rest of genfile.c) > back out of the backend and stick them into contrib/adminpack. The > argument for having them in the backend was always pretty weak to me. > In particular, a DBA who doesn't want them in his system for security > reasons has no simple way to get rid of them if they're in core, but > not installing a contrib module is easy enough.
I thought about that but what we have in the backend now is read-only which basically could be done using COPY, so I don't see any security value to moving them out. They are super-user only just like COPY. -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: 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