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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
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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/
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 Quite refreshing in a world of "weekend drag racer" developers."
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