Fast-Path documentation - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Fast-Path documentation
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0303051339500.2224-100000@peter.localdomain
Whole thread Raw
Responses Re: Fast-Path documentation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-docs
The libpq documentation contains this:

"""
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> provides a fast-path interface to
send function calls to the backend.  This is a trapdoor into system
internals and can be a potential security hole.  Most users will not need
this feature.
"""

Why and under what circumstances is this a security hole, and what is a
user to do about it?

--
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net


pgsql-docs by date:

Previous
From: Oliver Crow
Date:
Subject: Read Committed isolation
Next
From: "Delao, Darryl W"
Date:
Subject: Monitoring