Re: Converting contrib SQL functions to new style

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Converting contrib SQL functions to new style
Date: 2021-04-14 20:13:12
Message-ID: 3583532.1618431192@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> On 4/14/21 2:03 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> This may mean that squeezing these contrib changes into v14 is a lost
>> cause. We certainly shouldn't try to do what I suggest above for
>> v14; but without it, these changes are just moving the security
>> issue to a different place rather than eradicating it completely.

> Is there anything else we should be doing along the eat your own dogfood
> line that don't have these security implications?

We can still convert the initdb-created SQL functions to new style,
since there's no security threat during initdb. I'll make a patch
for that soon.

regards, tom lane

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