Re: pg_largeobject is a security hole

At 19:49 27/06/01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>Hmm.  [sound of grepping]  So does psql's \lo_list command.  That's
>annoying ... the list of large object OIDs is *exactly* what you'd want
>to hide from the unwashed masses.  Oh well, I'll leave bad enough alone
>for now.
>

I suspect this would be cleaned up when/if we implement LOB LOCATORs: they
have a limited lifetime, should be the only way to retrieve LOBs, and could
hide the underlying OID (which would never be used by external interfaces).


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