Re: [HACKERS] plperl Safe restrictions - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From John Hansen
Subject Re: [HACKERS] plperl Safe restrictions
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Msg-id 1100648780.14124.14.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] plperl Safe restrictions  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] plperl Safe restrictions  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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> I think it is *way* too late in the dev cycle to be proposing this.
> Maybe it should be a TODO item - I at least don't have time even to
> think about the implications os using these pragmas. The effect of the
> first is achievable via an environment setting, I believe.
>
> If you need these badly enough, use plperlu where there are no
> restrictions to overcome - the big problem is that 'use anything'
> requires that we enable the 'require' op, and that is certainly not
> going to happen without a great deal of thought.

Fair enough, was just a suggestion as they seem obviously useful, even
to the non-superuser plperl programmer.

TODO item would suffice :)

... John


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