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Re: Safe security

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>
Cc: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, jd@commandprompt.com, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-03-08T20:16:04Z
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Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> writes:
> That being said I would be in favor of at least saying "Hey! your
> using a known broken version of Safe".  Maybe something like the below
> at pl_perl init time?  (That is instead of requiring >v2.25 just
> complain about older versions)

> elog(WARNING, "Safe versions before 2.25 have known issues.  Please
> consider upgrading.");

We're in the service of providing a tool, not a nanny.

			regards, tom lane