Re: [Plperlng-devel] Re: plperl security

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, <plperlng-devel(at)pgfoundry(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [Plperlng-devel] Re: plperl security
Date: 2004-07-10 03:08:49
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0407092008320.1262-100000@hosting.commandprompt.com
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Hello,

I know there is a patch coming Monday with a great deal of bug fixes.

J

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > OK, I have a setup that instead of refusing to load trusted functions if
> > the Safe version is not up to date, forces them to error out by calling
> > elog(ERROR...), thus:
>
> > andrew=# select tval();
> > ERROR: trusted perl functions disabled - please upgrade perl Safe
> > module to at least 2.09
>
> > This seems like perfectly reasonable recovery to me. Thoughts?
>
> Works for me --- and it doesn't leak memory across repeated failures,
> right?
>
> Patch please?
>
> regards, tom lane
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