Re: Permissions checks for range-type support functions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Permissions checks for range-type support functions
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Msg-id CA+TgmoaXcR3xFYcGus6Wz-CEO-Q2K9j4N6T-eBu4TPocJKH7Pw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Permissions checks for range-type support functions  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 2. The ANALYZE option is flat out dangerous, because it allows any
> function with the signature "f(internal) returns bool" to be called as
> though it's a typanalyze function.  There are a couple of such functions
> in the catalogs already, and either of them will probably crash the
> backend if invoked as typanalyze on a range column.

It's always seemed mildly insane to me that we don't distinguish
between different flavors of "internal".  That seems like an accident
waiting to happen.

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Robert Haas
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