Re: PLUGINS Functionlity in Win32 build scripts

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: MUHAMMAD ASIF <anaeem(dot)it(at)hotmail(dot)com>, robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PLUGINS Functionlity in Win32 build scripts
Date: 2008-12-18 20:43:19
Message-ID: 25302.1229632999@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane escribi:
>> 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.

> I think this is fantasy -- the plpgsql debugger already has a makefile
> that writes the files directly to the plugins subdir.

Well, so are we to take one violation of a security policy as meaning
we should encourage more?

regards, tom lane

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