Re: [BUG] SECURITY DEFINER on call handler makes daemon crash

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] SECURITY DEFINER on call handler makes daemon crash
Date: 2010-03-19 23:06:06
Message-ID: 603c8f071003191606n8e22001m1b539ec33c36478e@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com> writes:
>> When we assign "SECURITY DEFINER" attribute on plpgsql_call_handler(),
>> it makes server process crashed.
>
> So don't do that.  Whatever possessed you to think that's a sensible
> idea anyway?

It might not be sensible, but the whole server going down as a result
doesn't seem very sensible either.

...Robert

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