Re: [HACKERS] plperl Safe restrictions

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: John Hansen <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Patches (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] plperl Safe restrictions
Date: 2004-12-01 22:20:57
Message-ID: 200412012220.iB1MKvS20564@candle.pha.pa.us
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Uh, what was the TODO here? I forgot.

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John Hansen wrote:
> > I think it is *way* too late in the dev cycle to be proposing this.
> > Maybe it should be a TODO item - I at least don't have time even to
> > think about the implications os using these pragmas. The effect of the
> > first is achievable via an environment setting, I believe.
> >
> > If you need these badly enough, use plperlu where there are no
> > restrictions to overcome - the big problem is that 'use anything'
> > requires that we enable the 'require' op, and that is certainly not
> > going to happen without a great deal of thought.
>
> Fair enough, was just a suggestion as they seem obviously useful, even
> to the non-superuser plperl programmer.
>
> TODO item would suffice :)
>
> ... John
>
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