Re: [HACKERS] Arrays of Complex Types

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Arrays of Complex Types
Date: 2007-04-09 01:53:46
Message-ID: 46199CAA.9000406@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Based on this, I withdraw my efficiency concern about generating
> rowtypes for all user tables. I do, however, still object to generating
> them for system tables. In particular an array type for pg_statistic
> will actively Not Work and probably constitute a security hole, because
> of the "anyarray" hack we use there.
>
>

How would we do that? Not create the array types in bootstrap mode? Or
just special-case pg_statistic?

cheers

andrew

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