Re: Security implications of config-file-location patch

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Tom Lane wrote:
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> >
> >I am sort of on the fence about this.  I am thinking that it would be
> >good to expose this information, but *only* to superusers.  It would not
> >take much code to add a GUC variable flag bit that prevents
> >non-superusers from examining the value of the GUC variable, and only a
> >little more code to reflect the correct paths into these variables all
> >the time.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
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> On the basis that I can't see that anyone but the superuser has a 
> legitimate interest in the info, this sounds good.

If they are using tablespaces is it OK that anyone can see their
location?

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