| From: | Rod Taylor <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca> |
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| To: | Florian Weimer <Weimer(at)CERT(dot)Uni-Stuttgart(dot)DE> |
| Cc: | Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [SECURITY] DoS attack on backend possible |
| Date: | 2002-08-19 17:17:54 |
| Message-ID: | 1029777475.84807.1.camel@jester |
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On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 13:14, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>
> > You guys *definitely* write scarey code.
>
> Yes, indeed. My code has a lot of unnecessary and error-prone input
> validation checks because I don't trust the PostgreSQL parser.
Bah.. Check the datatype is close and send it in.
Would be much easier to capture database errors if you didn't have to
base all error matches on regular expressions (error codes will be
nice).
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