Re: [PATCH] Add transforms feature

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add transforms feature
Date: 2014-01-13 17:32:23
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZQrabkr=DQK=ZLx6Pvp3KbwN_xdeQHjZLBJ3pB6EANuw@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 11:07 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> We should have learned by now that those are usually a bad idea.
>> In this case, we've got changes in the behavior of function calling,
>> which seems like not only a nightmare for debugging but a fertile
>> source of security issues.
>
> I note that this is the same mechanism that we have elaborately designed
> for *avoiding* security issues from search_path.

And it works like crap.

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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