COPY security fix

Started by Bruce Momjianalmost 22 years ago2 messageshackers
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#1Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us

Would someone remind me --- is the binary COPY security fix we did for
7.4 also needed for earlier releases like 7.3.X?

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#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#1)
Re: COPY security fix

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

Would someone remind me --- is the binary COPY security fix we did for
7.4 also needed for earlier releases like 7.3.X?

No, because there is no on-the-wire binary copy before 7.4, and copy
from file is superuser-only anyway.

regards, tom lane