Re: [HACKERS] Updating column on row update - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Updating column on row update
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Msg-id 4B0AAA23.7050200@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Updating column on row update  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> As for having plpgsql installed by default, are there any security
>> implications?
>>
>
> Well, that's pretty much exactly the question --- are there?  It would
> certainly make it easier for someone to exploit any other security
> weakness they might find.  I believe plain SQL plus SQL functions is
> Turing-complete, but that doesn't mean it's easy or fast to write loops
> etc in it.
>
>
>

That's a bit harder argument to sustain now we have recursive queries, ISTM.

cheers

andrew

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