Re: Proposal: knowing detail of config files via SQL

On 3/3/15 5:29 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> For my part, I understood that we specifically didn't want to allow that
> for the same reason that we didn't want to simply depend on the GRANT
> system for the above functions, but everyone else on these discussions
> so far is advocating for using the GRANT system.  My memory might be
> wrong, but I could have sworn that I had brought up exactly that
> suggestion in years past only to have it shot down.

I think a lot of this access control work is done based on some
undocumented understandings, when in fact there is no consensus on
anything.  I think we need more clarity.