Re: plperl exception catching

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bricklen Anderson <banderson(at)presinet(dot)com>
Cc: Marc Evans <Marc(at)SoftwareHackery(dot)Com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: plperl exception catching
Date: 2006-12-13 22:04:42
Message-ID: 12221.1166047482@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bricklen Anderson <banderson(at)presinet(dot)com> writes:
> Marc Evans wrote:
>> OK, I must be missing something obvious:
>> ERROR: creation of Perl function failed: 'eval "string"' trapped by
>> operation mask at line 2.

> Try as plperlu

This brings up the question of whether it'd be safe to allow eval in
plperl functions. I'm not sure why it's excluded now ... does it allow
access to untrusted operations?

regards, tom lane

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