Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer
Date: 2009-04-17 18:09:22
Message-ID: 20090417180922.GE10700@fetter.org
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 02:07:55PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > Depends. If we've found show-stopping bugs, as it appears we may
> > have done, in not requiring standards_conforming_strings, we can't
> > just pull a MySQL and ship anyhow.
>
> It's hardly a "show stopping bug", considering it's been there since
> standard_conforming_strings was invented.

A known sploit would be a show-stopper.

Cheers,
David.
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