Re: Bastian Blank 2011-10-15 <20111015184537.ga10...@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org>
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 08:04:35PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > I don't think this is going to be changed. The initial permissions are
> > there to make the database usable for "the public" (that's also what
> > the name says). If you don't like the public schema, just drop it.
> 
> This is not possible. The public schema always belongs to postgres and
> not the owner of the db.

Well, then drop it as the postgres user. You can even do this for the
template1 database.

> > Security-wise this is not that much of a problem as users need to be
> > explicitely created in the database cluster before they can connect.
> 
> So every db user is allowed to DoS the db server and insert arbitrary
> stuff into the template1 db in the default config.

You obviously didn't read the next paragraph when you wrote this.

> > I would agree that there might be a case to lock access to template1
> > for everyone except postgres by default. We might still decide not to
> > deviate from upstream here, though. Martin, Peter?
> 
> Well. Then it is time to refer this to CTTE.

Good luck with wasting their time. I tried to discuss this with you
and the PG maintainers, maybe you should wait a bit before escalating
this.

Christoph
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