Re: plperl Safe restrictions

David Helgason <david(at)uti(dot)is> writes:
> A postgres question I don't know the answer to is whether allowing the
> user to trigger a segfault is a security problem.

It would not be cool for a trusted language to allow such things, that's
for sure.

You could debate back and forth about whether we ought to allow it and
warn that some versions of Perl may have exploitable bugs, but I'd
prefer to err on the side of conservatism.

regards, tom lane