Re: Possible make_oidjoins_check Security Issue

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-10-26T14:58:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> I believe the proper way to handle this is a new directory under /tmp. 

It's definitely not worth the trouble.  I looked at what configure does
to make /tmp subdirectories portably, and it is spectacularly ugly
(not to mention long).  If make_oidjoins_check were a user-facing tool
that would be one thing, but it isn't ...

			regards, tom lane