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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Roberts, Jon <Jon.Roberts@asurion.com>
Cc: 'Jonah H. Harris' <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: viewing source code
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:03:15 -0300
Message-ID: <20071214220315.GF6269@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1A6E6D554222284AB25ABE3229A927621129FA@nrtexcus702.int.asurion.com>
References: <1A6E6D554222284AB25ABE3229A927621129FA@nrtexcus702.int.asurion.com>

Roberts, Jon escribió:
> I'm not familiar at all with pg_read_file.  Is it wide open so a user can
> read any file they want?  Can you not lock it down like utl_file and
> directories in Oracle?

That function is restricted to superusers.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                          Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org/
"The Postgresql hackers have what I call a "NASA space shot" mentality.
 Quite refreshing in a world of "weekend drag racer" developers."
(Scott Marlowe)



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