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Tom Lane 0fba3bef55 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.		2010-01-14 00:14:06 +00:00
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README

PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================
  
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the
file HISTORY.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.