Re: plpython implementation

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Szymon Guz <mabewlun(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: plpython implementation
Date: 2013-06-30 12:31:46
Message-ID: 20130630123146.GB2950@svana.org
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On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 02:18:07PM +0200, Szymon Guz wrote:
> > python does not any any sort of reliable sandbox, so there is no plpython,
> > only plpythonu - hence only one interpreter per backend is needed.
> >
> Is there any track of the discussion that there is no way to make the
> sandbox? I managed to create some kind of sandbox, a simple modification
> which totally disables importing modules, so I'm just wondering why it
> cannot be done.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/SandboxedPython

This is the thread I was thinking of:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-February/086401.html

If you read through it I think you will understand the difficulties.

Have a nice day,
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