From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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To: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Fixing insecure security definer functions |
Date: | 2007-03-29 18:10:50 |
Message-ID: | 20070329181050.GZ31937@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* Merlin Moncure (mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> fwiw, I think this is a great solution...because the default behavior
> is preserved you get through without any extra guc settings (although
> you may want to add one anyways).
I agree that the proposed solution looks good.
> maybe security definer functions should raise a warning for implicit
> PATH NONE, and possibly even deprecate that behavior and force people
> to type it out in future (8.4+) releases.
While I agree that raising a warning makes sense I don't believe it
should be forced. There may be cases where, even in security definer
functions, the current search_path should be used (though, of course,
care must be taken in writing such functions).
Thanks,
Stephen
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