| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Dunc <postgresql(at)dunc-it(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PgSQL General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: DBMS_File Equivalent? |
| Date: | 2005-01-06 20:23:04 |
| Message-ID: | 19509.1105042984@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Dunc <postgresql(at)dunc-it(dot)com> writes:
> Can a trigger, written in plperl, write to the OS when it fires?
No, but a plperlu trigger can.
> My database (8 rc 3, on Redhat
> 9) seems to choke (terminated on signal 11) each time I try to write to
> the OS - I would imagine because it's a major security threat to have
> the DB blindly writing to the filesystem.
It is a security hole, but sig 11 is not the expected response :-(.
Can you provide a debugger backtrace from the crash, or even better a
complete test case? What Perl version are you using?
regards, tom lane
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