Re: PoC: Make it possible to disallow WHERE-less UPDATE and DELETE

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PoC: Make it possible to disallow WHERE-less UPDATE and DELETE
Date: 2017-01-05 05:58:26
Message-ID: 20170105055826.GA13699@fetter.org
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On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 07:57:33PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 12:34 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> > I've rolled your patches into this next one and clarified the commit
> > message, as there appears to have been some confusion about the scope.
>
> Is there actually a meaning to have two options? Couldn't we leave
> with just one? Actually, I'd just suggest to rip off the option and
> just to make the checks enabled when the library is loaded, to get a
> module as simple as passwordcheck.

Done.

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/contrib/require_where/data/test_require_where.data
> @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
> +Four
> There is no need to load fake data as you need to just check the
> parsing of the query. So let's simplify the tests and remove that.

Removed.

> Except that the shape of the module is not that bad. The copyright
> notices need to be updated to 2017, and it would be nice to have some
> comments at the top of require_where.c to describe what it does.

Please find attached the next version of the patch including Pavel's
suggestion that I provide some motivation for including those
Asserts.

Best,
David.
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