Re: silly select question

On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 2:45 pm, Johnson, Shaunn wrote:
> Running PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on RedHat Linux 7.2
>
> This may seem like an obviously stupid question, but
> is there any other reason, besides security
> issues, that the system tables (pg_shadow, for one)
> does not have select access on it?

Most system tables *do* have select access, otherwise you couldn't see what
tables, views, functions etc. existed.

Now pg_shadow is special, because it contains the passwords PG uses, so only
the administrator (user postgres) should be able to see that.

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  Richard Huxton