Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix an ancient oversight in libpq's handling of V3-protocol COPY - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

I wrote:
> * ParameterStatus could be a risk if a function executed during COPY
> tried to change one of the above-mentioned parameters.  Since COPY OUT
> doesn't fire triggers, I think user-defined datatype output functions
> would be the only possible candidates for that.

Scratch that --- that thinking is so last-year :-(.  COPY OUT from a
SELECT subquery could fire any old function.  pg_dump isn't at risk
from that, but other applications would be.
        regards, tom lane