Re: [GENERAL] [BUGS] BUG #1830: Non-super-user must be able to copy from a file

2005-08-19 Thread Sean Utt
cc'ing the list, haven't seen it show up there And yeah, I'm using Outlook Express and the quoting is crappy. So sue me I never saw your request rejected, though it did rank low on priority -- in my book at least. The problem has been discussed at length, and there are multiple ways to

Re: [GENERAL] [BUGS] BUG #1830: Non-super-user must be able to copy from a file

2005-08-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:49:06PM +1200, Bernard wrote: > If the owner of an application owning the connections trusts the > application and gets the postgres superuser to grant it the right to > read from files, then it is obviously acceptable to the owner of the > application and to the postgres

Re: [GENERAL] [BUGS] BUG #1830: Non-super-user must be able to copy from a file

2005-08-19 Thread Sean Utt
This is silly. The bug being reported is that a non-super-user can't copy from a server side file with JDBC. There are a jillion (no, really, a jillion) other ways to accomplish this, because as is the Perl motto, there is more than one way to do it. If this is really so important, Bernard

Re: [GENERAL] [BUGS] BUG #1830: Non-super-user must be able to copy from a file

2005-08-18 Thread Bernard
Andrew On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 04:17:16 -, you wrote: >> In the majority of bulk load cases, the input exists as a file already > >But not necessarily on the server. True. But I am concerned with the server, and there I want that things are handled on the server, not on the client. > >> The use

Re: [GENERAL] [BUGS] BUG #1830: Non-super-user must be able to copy from a file

2005-08-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:16:29AM +1200, Bernard wrote: > Bruno and interested list members > > I want to follow what is suggested here. How are STDIN and STDOUT > addressed when using the JDBC driver? > > Or in other words where can I write or receive megabytes of data? I don't know how JDBC d

Re: [GENERAL] [BUGS] BUG #1830: Non-super-user must be able to copy from a file

2005-08-18 Thread Bernard
Bruno and interested list members I want to follow what is suggested here. How are STDIN and STDOUT addressed when using the JDBC driver? Or in other words where can I write or receive megabytes of data? I would not want to append this to the String of a SQL Statement in Java because that is a S