Re: modules

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "Aidan Van Dyk" <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, "Jeremy Drake" <pgsql(at)jdrake(dot)com>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
Subject: Re: modules
Date: 2008-04-04 20:50:34
Message-ID: 8101.1207342234@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> I would suggest a guc for the "safe" place and I would suggest it be a list of
> places. And I would suggest that for OS packagers they really want two
> locations on that list, something like:
> /usr/lib/postgresql/modules;/usr/local/lib/postgresql/modules
> That way users can compile and install their own modules into /usr/local
> without interfering with modules which come from OS packages.

That seems like a great way to persuade people that "safe" isn't
so safe after all. If I were the kind of ISP that doesn't want
people to have database superuser, there's no way on earth that
I'd accept a setting like that.

regards, tom lane

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