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Re: [PATCH] Add transforms feature

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2014-01-11T03:40:19Z
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On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 11:07 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> We should have learned by now that those are usually a bad idea.
> In this case, we've got changes in the behavior of function calling,
> which seems like not only a nightmare for debugging but a fertile
> source of security issues.

I note that this is the same mechanism that we have elaborately designed
for *avoiding* security issues from search_path.