Tom Lane wrote: > Log Message: > ----------- > Simplify validate_exec() by using access(2) to check file permissions, > rather than trying to implement the equivalent logic by hand. The motivation > for the original coding appears to have been to check with the effective uid's > permissions not the real uid's; but there is no longer any difference, because > we don't run the postmaster setuid (indeed, main.c enforces that they're the > same). Using access() means we will get it right in situations the original > coding failed to handle, such as ACL-based permissions. Besides it's a lot > shorter, cleaner, and more thread-safe. Per bug #5275 from James Bellinger.
Are there any outside code modifications now that this is thread-safe? I can't find any myself. -- Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-committers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-committers
