Re: modules - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: modules
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Msg-id 8101.1207342234@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: modules  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: modules  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> I would suggest a guc for the "safe" place and I would suggest it be a list of
> places. And I would suggest that for OS packagers they really want two
> locations on that list, something like:
>   /usr/lib/postgresql/modules;/usr/local/lib/postgresql/modules
> That way users can compile and install their own modules into /usr/local
> without interfering with modules which come from OS packages.

That seems like a great way to persuade people that "safe" isn't
so safe after all.  If I were the kind of ISP that doesn't want
people to have database superuser, there's no way on earth that
I'd accept a setting like that.
        regards, tom lane


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