Re: Suggesting a libpq addition

2010/12/5 Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch>:
> I am suggesting adding a function to libpq:
>
> PGresult *PQvexec(PGconn *conn, const char *fmt, ...);
>
> It behaves similar to PQexec, but it allows for printf style varargs and
> does connection re-establishing if the connection fails (it can be
> discussed if this already to much magic, maybe remove this part).  It
> has been carefully designed to handle memory the right way.  We use this
> since a long time.
>
> What do you think?
>

It's depend on implementation, but it can be a great security hole -
see SQL injection

Regards

Pavel Stehule

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