Re: viewing source code - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gregory Stark
Subject Re: viewing source code
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Msg-id 87abo1ri9j.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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In response to viewing source code  ("Roberts, Jon" <Jon.Roberts@asurion.com>)
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"Roberts, Jon" <Jon.Roberts@asurion.com> writes:

> Major Feature 3: Users will build their own functions to manipulate their
> own data and share the output with their department.  PostgreSQL security
> currently does not secure the functions they write so the feature is not
> fully met.

Incidentally, are you really wedded to pl/pgsql functions?

It seems like it would be far more powerful to allow them to build up a
library of perl or python or whatever and put them in files in a blessed
directory. Then you could have a few standard functions which they could use
to call functions from those libraries.

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