Re: logfile subprocess and Fancy File Functions - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
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> >As a super-user, could an attacker load a server-side language and
> >access the backend environment variable PGDATA.
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> >
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> plperl won't do it, but plperlu will (as expected I guess). But the
> superuser will have to jump through some explicit hoops in order to get
> there, which is different from providing such facilities out of the box.

I am thinking they could easily use pgtcl.  I don't think the hoops are
very high.

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