fw@deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer) writes:
> * Thomas Mueller:
>
>> What do you think about it? Do you think it makes sense to implement
>> this security feature in PostgreSQL as well?
>
> Can't this be implemented in the client library, or a wrapper around it?
> A simple approximation would be to raise an error when you encounter a
> query string that isn't contained in some special configuration file.
This could be implemented in a client library, but that means that
you're still entirely as vulnerable; any client that chooses not to
use that library won't be protected.
It would be a mighty attractive thing to have something at the server
level to protect against the problem.
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