Re: pl/pgsql enabled by default
Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-05-07T10:29:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Simon Riggs wrote: > I support Andrew's comment, though might reword it to > "Don't enable anything that gives users programmable features or user > exits by default". Users can already define SQL functions by default, which certainly provides "programmable features". I'm not quite sure what you mean by "user exits." I guess I'm missing how pl/pgsql is a fundamentally greater security risk. > You can't use the builtin encoding functions or non-btree indexes to > access things you are not supposed to. How can you use pl/pgsql to "access things you are not supposed to"? -Neil