Is PQfn() insecure or not? - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

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Responses Re: Is PQfn() insecure or not?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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"Programmer's Guide, Client Interfaces, libpq, The Fast-Path Interface"
describes PQfn() and has this alarming remark:
 "This is a trapdoor into system internals and can be a potential  security hole."

Sure this isn't true. PQfn() just lets a frontend call a function which is
also accessible (if maybe not useful) via a SELECT statement, correct?  If
I'm right, we should remove the scary language from the documentation.  If
on the other hand PQfn() is a security hole, could someone post an exploit?


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