On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Jim Mercer wrote:
>
> the following was sent to the php developer's list, and they came back with:
>
> > > Isn't it generally better (where "better" means more secure,
> > > efficient, and easily maintained) to handle database access
> > > control using PostgreSQL's native access mappings?
> >
> > I would think so, and IMHO, that's where pgsql access control
> > belongs, with pgsql.
I totally disagree. It is a language level restriction, not a database
level one, so why back it into Postgres? Just parse 'conninfo' when it is
pg_(p)connect() and check it against the configuration setting.
The patch seems fine. I am unsure as to how useful it is.
system("/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -U jim -c \"select 'i got
in';\" template1");
Gavin
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