On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> Sure. But you don't run your middleware as root (I hope ;-)) and you
> shouldn't run it in untrusted server-side languages either. I agree
Actually - I don't practically care, and in fact I'm doing things that are
unsafe...But, I agree, others may think differently ;)
> with Andrew that it's important to figure out how to make DBI usable
> in trusted plperl. Obviously this isn't happening in time for 8.0,
> but it deserves a place on the TODO list.
It's interesting but its probably a untrivial effort to make DBI itself
Safe-safe. Probably it would require starting with DBI::PurePerl (non-XS
version) and adding a mode that would disable all unSafe activity (such as
file operations etc etc)...
-alex
