Re: Unprivileged access to pgsql functions?

From: Matt Warner <matt(at)warnertechnology(dot)com>
To: Vibhor Kumar <vibhor(dot)kumar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Unprivileged access to pgsql functions?
Date: 2011-03-04 21:42:34
Message-ID: AANLkTimHbnQLzMBkKaX3uMNjDWnCM4KGX_KTz+GO2O+A@mail.gmail.com
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Here's how the script is defining the function, if that helps:

CREATE FUNCTION nvl(anyelement, anyelement)
RETURNS anyelement
AS '$libdir/orafunc','ora_nvl'
LANGUAGE C IMMUTABLE;

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Matt Warner <matt(at)warnertechnology(dot)com>wrote:

> No luck:
>
> *** as postgres
> postgres=# GRANT all on function nvl(anyelement,anyelement) to public;
> GRANT
> postgres=#
>
> *** as unprivileged user
> offload=> select nvl(0,1);
> ERROR: function nvl(integer, integer) does not exist
> LINE 1: select nvl(0,1);
> ^
> HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You might
> need to add explicit type casts.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Vibhor Kumar <
> vibhor(dot)kumar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 5, 2011, at 2:50 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
>>
>> > On 03/04/11 1:11 PM, Matt Warner wrote:
>> >> Good afternoon.
>> >>
>> >> I've been looking at the Oracle Functionality package. ...
>> >
>> > what is this? doesn't sound like anything in PostgreSQL I'm familiar
>> with. Is this part of EntepriseDB's Postgres+ package or something? You
>> should probably contact them via their support channels.
>>
>>
>> GRANT all on function nvl to public would help.
>>
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Vibhor Kumar
>> EnterpriseDB Corporation
>> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>> vibhor(dot)kumar(at)enterprisedb(dot)com
>> Blog:http://vibhork.blogspot.com
>>
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