Re: Unicode string literals versus the world

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Unicode string literals versus the world
Date: 2009-04-14 19:23:37
Message-ID: 200904142223.38042.peter_e@gmx.net
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On Tuesday 14 April 2009 21:48:12 Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > I think we can handle that and the cases Tom presents by erroring out
> > when the U& syntax is used with stdstr off.
>
> I think you're missing the point --- this is not about whether the
> syntax is unambiguous (it is already) but about whether a frontend that
> doesn't understand it 100% will be secure against subversion. I have no
> confidence in the latter assumption.

I think I am getting the point quite well. Do you have an example how this
can be subverted?

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