| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, andrew(at)supernews(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: plpgsql by default |
| Date: | 2006-04-11 23:01:19 |
| Message-ID: | 1144796480.13511.26.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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> That's a fair point.
>
> Perhaps a compromise would be to enable pl/pgsql by default, but not
> grant the USAGE privilege on it. This would allow superusers to define
> pl/pgsql functions without taking any additional steps. Non-superusers
> could be given access to pl/pgsql via a simple GRANT -- either for all
> users via GRANT TO PUBLIC, or on a more granular basis as desired. This
> would lower the barrier to using pl/pgsql by a fairly significant
> margin, but not cause any additional security exposure that I can see.
That seems reasonable.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> -Neil
>
>
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