Re: PLUGINS Functionlity in Win32 build scripts

I understand you concern about the security issues.Actully it just give us the ease to automate build and installation of plugin modules on both the platforms Unix and Windows. We can use configure options to allow/disallow installation of plugin binaries. I am sure that it will enhance the build process.Thanks.

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> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PLUGINS Functionlity in Win32 build scripts
> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:43:19 -0500
> From: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
>
> Alvaro Herrera writes:
>> Tom Lane escribió:
>>> 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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