Re: How does one make the following psql statement sql-injection resilient?

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Andy Colson <andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How does one make the following psql statement sql-injection resilient?
Date: 2015-03-17 04:31:04
Message-ID: CAKFQuwZas=frYrn_ASH8JsTDNT5HDcx0i_bGaKWzzQRhtVxS5g@mail.gmail.com
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On Monday, March 16, 2015, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> David G. Johnston wrote:
>
> > Thanks! I got the gist even with the typo. I actually pondered about
> > prepare/execute after hitting send. Am I correct in remembering that
> > "CREATE TEMP TABLE" cannot be prepared? I was using the actual query
> with
> > CREATE TEMP TABLE and then issuing "\copy" to dump the result out to the
> > file. The limitation of copy to having to be written on a single line
> > makes the intermediary temporary table seem almost a necessity.
>
> CREATE TEMP TABLE AS EXECUTE
>
>
Thanks.

Though unless I need to work on the temp table I think:

PREPARE ...;
\copy (EXECUTE ...) TO '~/temp.csv' ...;

Gives the best of all worlds.

David J.

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