Re: Protection from SQL injection

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

"Gurjeet Singh" <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Maybe we can extend the SQL's WITH clause do declare the constant along with
> the query, and not separate from the query.

> WITH CONSTANT c_jobrole = 'clerk', CONSTANT c_dept = 10
> SELECT * FROM emp WHERE jobrole = c_jobrole and deptno = c_dept;

[ scratches head... ]  And that will provide SQL injection protection how?

Anyway, you hardly need new syntax to do that, I'd expect

	WITH SELECT 'clerk' AS c_jobrole ...

to accomplish it just fine.

			regards, tom lane