Re: Big problem

Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
>>Hmmm - I agree it's difficult, but somehow I think it's something we 
>>should do.  Just imagine if some major user of postgres did it - they'd 
>>be screaming blue murder...
> 
> Shrug.  Superusers can *always* shoot themselves in the foot in Postgres.
> Try "delete from pg_proc", for instance.  This sounds right up there
> with the notion of preventing a Unix superuser from doing "rm -rf /".

I have to agree.

FWIW, I've seen a unix superuser do a recursive chmod 777 on /, and I've 
seen a Windows server admin recursively deny EVERYTHING from EVERYBODY 
starting at c:\. In both cases, we found that's why we keep regular 
backups ;-)

Joe