Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: decibel <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
Date: 2009-09-14 17:53:45
Message-ID: b42b73150909141053s261a087cuaabd8b281042f6bd@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> How is it any worse than what people can already do? Anyone who isn't aware
>> of the dangers of SQL injection has already screwed themselves. You're
>> basically arguing that they would put a variable inside of quotes, but they
>> would never use ||.
>
> simply - people use functions quote_literal or quote_ident.

you still have use of those functions:
execute sprintf('select * from %s', quote_ident($1));

sprintf is no more or less dangerous than || operator.

merlin

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