| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> |
| Cc: | elein(at)varlena(dot)com, Karsten Hilbert <Karsten(dot)Hilbert(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PlPython |
| Date: | 2003-06-28 15:21:35 |
| Message-ID: | 17911.1056813695@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> writes:
> What about making network connections? That seems less harmful than
> filesystem access, and certainly could have legitimate uses.
Any outside-the-database operation "could have legitimate uses". The
problem is it also has not-so-legitimate uses, and we would have no
good way to tell the difference. So a trusted language is supposed to
be an airtight sandbox. If you want out of the sandbox, you use an
untrusted language.
regards, tom lane
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