Re: Specification for Trusted PLs? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Re: Specification for Trusted PLs?
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In response to Re: Specification for Trusted PLs?  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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> Well, the best way to define what a trusted language can do is to
> define a *whitelist* of what it can do, not a blacklist of what it
> can't do. That's the only way to get a complete definition. It's then
> up to the implementation step to figure out how to represent that in
> the form of tests.

No, that's exactly backwards. We can't define all the things a language 
can do, but we can certainly lay out the things that it is not supposed to.

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