Re: tsearch_core patch: permissions and security issues

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> >> Well assuming we have any SQL-level support at all I think we should
> >> strive to avoid these functions taking INTERNAL arguments.
> 
> > That gets us down to just needing to worry about whether we like the
> > SQL representation of configurations.  Which is still a nontrivial
> > issue, but at least it seems manageable on a timescale that's
> > reasonable for 8.3.
> 
> O.k. I am not trying to throw any cold water on this, but with the 
> limitations we are suggesting, does the patch gain us anything over just 
> leaving tsearch in contrib?

The idea is that common operations like searching and mapping dictionaries
will be easier to do, but the more complex stuff will require catalog
manipulations.

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