Re: vacuumdb and new VACUUM options

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:45 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2019-05-15 11:36:52 +0900, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> > I might be missing something but if the frontend code doesn't check
> > arguments and we let the backend parsing logic do all the work then it
> > allows user to execute an arbitrary SQL command via vacuumdb.
>
> But, so what? The user could just have used psql to do so?

Indeed. It shouldn't be a problem and we even now can do that by
specifying for example --table="t(c1);select 1" but doesn't work.

Regards,

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Masahiko Sawada
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