Re: Security Issue..

Tom Lane wrote:
> But having said that, I do not foresee being able to replace direct
> pg_catalog access with INFORMATION_SCHEMA views anytime soon.  There
> are too many clients out there that are used to doing it that way.
> 
> Moreover, pg_dump will never be able to work off INFORMATION_SCHEMA,
> because it needs to get at Postgres-specific information that will
> not be available from a spec-compliant set of views.  I'm fairly
> dubious about converting psql, even.
> 
> Rod's welcome to work on developing a set of spec-compliant
> INFORMATION_SCHEMA views ... and maybe he can even turn off public
> read access to pg_catalog in his own installation ... but he should
> not expect us to accept a patch that makes that the default anytime
> in the foreseeable future.

Yes, it would be nice to have spec-compliant stuff.  However, things
like psql really get into those catalogs and grab detailed information
that is probably not covered the the spec.

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