Re: PLPythonu for production server - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: PLPythonu for production server
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Msg-id 56D89212.10609@aklaver.com
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In response to PLPythonu for production server  (Rémi Cura <remi.cura@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: PLPythonu for production server  ("David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
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On 03/03/2016 10:09 AM, Rémi Cura wrote:
> Hey List,
>
> would it be considered safe to use plpythonu for a production database?
> What would be the limitations/ dangers?

They are explained here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/interactive/plpython.html

"PL/Python is only available as an "untrusted" language, meaning it does
not offer any way of restricting what users can do in it and is
therefore named plpythonu. A trusted variant plpython might become
available in the future if a secure execution mechanism is developed in
Python. The writer of a function in untrusted PL/Python must take care
that the function cannot be used to do anything unwanted, since it will
be able to do anything that could be done by a user logged in as the
database administrator. Only superusers can create functions in
untrusted languages such as plpythonu."

>
> Thanks,
> Cheers,
> Rémi-C


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