Ken Tanzer <ken.tanzer@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> You will for example be making it awfully difficult for them to use >> \copy, \i, \e, \g, the list goes on. > I'm not really eager to go down this path, but nonetheless it's not > obvious to me why giving psql a lobotomy (or hopefully a careful > surgical tweak) to disable the "\!" functionality would impact all those > other functions. No, you missed the point: those functions, as well as others, are useless unless psql is running inside a filesystem that the user has (easy) read/write access to. psql is really, really meant to be run on the client side. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general