Re: RDS and postgres extension approval

From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RDS and postgres extension approval
Date: 2021-10-22 02:28:50
Message-ID: 931ded5b-c8da-5ebc-9f48-637d9a3de015@gmail.com
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On 10/21/21 8:50 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 6:48 PM Wells Oliver <wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> Is there anything out there written about what trusted means? The PG
> community seems pretty trusting :)
>
>
> It basically means the programming language allows the author of the code
> to*break out of the server and access the underlying operating system* as
> the postgres user.  I believe this is written in the docs - but I haven't
> searched recently.
>
Which -- by design -- RDS won't let you do.  Thus, the lack of untrusted
modules.

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