Re: Preventing some SQL commands

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Hallgren <thhal(at)mailblocks(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Preventing some SQL commands
Date: 2004-11-21 18:35:17
Message-ID: 9137.1101062117@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Hallgren <thhal(at)mailblocks(dot)com> writes:
> In a PL language it's sometimes desirable to prevent execution of some
> commands. I would like to prevent the commands "begin [work or
> transaction]", "commit", and "rollback", completely and I would like to
> force the user to use explicit methods for the savepoint methods.

If you are executing through SPI then those operations are disallowed
already.

> I wonder if there's any way to extract the nature of a command from the
> execution plan returned by SPI_prepare. If not, would it be very
> difficult to add?

The main problem with this proposal is the erroneous assumption that
there can be only one command in a SPI plan.

regards, tom lane

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