Re: Application name patch - v2

2009/10/19 Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I dislike write access to app name guc for user too. It's not safe.
>> Maybe only super user can do it?
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> That'll render it pretty useless, as most applications wouldn't then
> be able to set/reset it when it makes sense to do so.

But application can do it simply via connection string, no? Mostly
applications has connection string in configuration, so I don't see
problem there. And if I would to allow access, then I could to wrap
setting to security definer function.

I see this as security hole. It allows special SQL injection.

Regards
Pavel Stehule

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