Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> - The superuser only generic file functions in the admin package have
>> been posted for 8.0, but where (more or less ) silently dropped. These
>> functions allow pgadmin to display the server logs, as well as editing
>> pg_hba.conf and postgresql.conf without console access to
>> whatever-pgsql-is-running-on. I'd like to see this at least as contrib
>> module (the functions are probably safer than pl_sh).
> Heck, I didn't even see these. I was going to write some in pgperl for my own
> use. These seem potentially very dangerous though, so we wouldn't want them
> installed by default.
My recollection is that they weren't "silently dropped", they were
explicitly rejected after much discussion because of security worries
(and possibly other concerns, I don't recall for sure anymore).
regards, tom lane