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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Specification for Trusted PLs?
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Msg-id 22522.1274469202@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Specification for Trusted PLs?  ("Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>)
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"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> writes:
>> 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.

> 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.

Yeah.  The whole point of allowing multiple PLs is that some of them
make it possible/easy to do things you can't (easily) do in others.
So I'm not sure that a whitelist is going to be especially useful.
        regards, tom lane


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