Re: Extension security improvement: Add support for extensions with an owned schema

David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>

From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <me@jeltef.nl>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-06-20T17:02:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Jun 19, 2024, at 13:50, Jelte Fennema-Nio <me@jeltef.nl> wrote:

> This indeed does sound like the behaviour that pretty much every
> existing extension wants to have. One small addition/clarification
> that I would make to your definition: fully qualified references to
> other objects should still be allowed.

Would be tricky for referring to objects from other extensions  with no defined schema, or are relatable.

> 1. To have a safe search_path that can be used in SET search_path on a
> function (see also [1]).
> 2. To make it easy for extension authors to avoid conflicts with other
> extensions/UDFs.

These would indeed be nice improvements IMO.

Best,

David