Re: [PATCH] Add transforms feature

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add transforms feature
Date: 2014-01-11 03:40:19
Message-ID: 1389411619.12505.6.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 11:07 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> We should have learned by now that those are usually a bad idea.
> In this case, we've got changes in the behavior of function calling,
> which seems like not only a nightmare for debugging but a fertile
> source of security issues.

I note that this is the same mechanism that we have elaborately designed
for *avoiding* security issues from search_path.

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