pgsql: Require the issuer of CREATE TYPE to own the functions mentioned

From: tgl(at)postgresql(dot)org (Tom Lane)
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Require the issuer of CREATE TYPE to own the functions mentioned
Date: 2006-01-13 18:06:45
Message-ID: 20060113180645.819A09DD72E@postgresql.org
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Require the issuer of CREATE TYPE to own the functions mentioned in the
type definition. Because use of a type's I/O conversion functions isn't
access-checked, CREATE TYPE amounts to granting public execute permissions
on the functions, and so allowing it to anybody means that someone could
theoretically gain access to a function he's not supposed to be able to
execute. The parameter-type restrictions already enforced by CREATE TYPE
make it fairly unlikely that this oversight is meaningful in practice,
but still it seems like a good idea to plug the hole going forward.
Also, document the implicit grant just in case anybody gets the idea of
building I/O functions that might need security restrictions.

Modified Files:
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pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref:
create_type.sgml (r1.59 -> r1.60)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_type.sgml.diff?r1=1.59&r2=1.60)
pgsql/src/backend/commands:
typecmds.c (r1.85 -> r1.86)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/commands/typecmds.c.diff?r1=1.85&r2=1.86)

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