Re: Safe security

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Safe security
Date: 2010-03-08 20:16:04
Message-ID: 22156.1268079364@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> That being said I would be in favor of at least saying "Hey! your
> using a known broken version of Safe". Maybe something like the below
> at pl_perl init time? (That is instead of requiring >v2.25 just
> complain about older versions)

> elog(WARNING, "Safe versions before 2.25 have known issues. Please
> consider upgrading.");

We're in the service of providing a tool, not a nanny.

regards, tom lane

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