Re: PLUGINS Functionlity in Win32 build scripts

MUHAMMAD ASIF <anaeem(dot)it(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> Purpose of this Plugins change is to add support in postgresql source
> to build plugin and install in (install dir)/lib/plugins. We made
> these changes for a plugin module i.e. pldebugger and we found this a
> useful feature that can help postgresql in adding plugins easily.

AFAICT, the idea of this patch is to make shared libraries that
automatically install in $libdir/plugins/ rather than $libdir/.

This is actually in direct contradiction to the original intent of the
plugins/ subdirectory, which was that it only contain libraries that the
local administrator had decided to consider safe and put there manually.
Since the normal superuser-only restrictions for library loading are
bypassed for stuff in plugins/, there's a nontrivial risk of security
problems if stuff just gets put there willy-nilly.

If we want to change this security policy, let's have a discussion about
it in those terms. It's a policy, not a bug to be patched around.

regards, tom lane