Re: @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in
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Msg-id 19433.1029869400@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in  ("Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>)
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"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at> writes:
> Would it be possible to update the system tables, so that cash_out does not take
> opaque but really takes type money ?

That is part of the solution, but only part: we have hundreds of
functions that take "opaque" because we don't currently have any way
to declare what they really take.  (In particular, all the typinput
functions are like that --- so fixing typoutput functions isn't plugging
even half of the gap.)

See my proposal to make "opaque" obsolete.
        regards, tom lane


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