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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Derrick Rice <[email protected]>
Cc: Guillaume Lelarge <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: DROP TABLE can be issued by schema owner as well as table owner
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 12:53:49 -0400
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Excerpts from Derrick Rice's message of vie may 20 12:35:24 -0400 2011:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
> > Well, for a specific object, any superuser, the database owner, the
> > schema owner, and the object owner could drop the object. This is not a
> > vulnerability.
> >
> 
> It is not documented clearly.  Any information not made clear is an
> opportunity for an error which leads to a vulnerability.

So we need a standard caveat stmt on all relevant pages?  Seems
reasonable to me.

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Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
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