Re: Proposal: template-ify (binary) extensions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Proposal: template-ify (binary) extensions
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In response to Re: Proposal: template-ify (binary) extensions  (Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>)
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch> wrote:
> But okay, you're saying we *have* and *want* a guarantee that even a
> superuser cannot execute arbitrary native code via libpq (at least in
> default installs w/o extensions).

Yes, that's a good way of summarizing my position.  I think I'd
support having an extension that allows that, although I don't think
I'd want such an extension installed on any machine I administer.  But
I oppose having it be something the server allows by default.  YMMV.
:-)

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Robert Haas
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