Re: [HACKERS] Arrays of Complex Types - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Arrays of Complex Types
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Msg-id 46199CAA.9000406@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Arrays of Complex Types  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Arrays of Complex Types  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Based on this, I withdraw my efficiency concern about generating
> rowtypes for all user tables.  I do, however, still object to generating
> them for system tables.  In particular an array type for pg_statistic
> will actively Not Work and probably constitute a security hole, because
> of the "anyarray" hack we use there.
>
>

How would we do that? Not create the array types in bootstrap mode? Or
just special-case pg_statistic?

cheers

andrew

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