Re: plpgsql by default - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Hallgren
Subject Re: plpgsql by default
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Msg-id 443C2AFE.3000301@tada.se
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In response to Re: plpgsql by default  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> In the end it's only one small component of security, but any security
> expert will tell you that you take all the layers of security that you
> can get.  If you don't need a given bit of functionality, it shouldn't
> get installed.
> 
I think any security expert would say that if let non trustworthy people get so far as to 
create their own SQL statements, you're in big trouble. Plpgsql or not. I fail to see what 
the real issue is here. Your argument is analog to saying "don't install bash on a Linux 
system by default. People might do bad things with it".

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren



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