Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > > I think access's reputation as something to avoid caused us not to look > > at it. My old BSD manual says about access(): > > > CAVEAT > > The access() function should be used rarely, if ever. Specifically, > > access() should never be used by any program whose user real and effec- > > tive IDs, or group real and effective IDs, differ. > > But we force those to be the same in main.c. Anyway there are several > other uses of access() in the code ...
Yea, I am not saying the text is right, but rather why it was not considered for use in that case. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
