John Heasman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It appears that low privileged users can invoke the LOAD extension to load 
> arbitrary libraries into the postgres process space.

Hmm.  Creating C functions is restricted to superusers, but I guess no
one ever noticed that LOAD isn't.  On a platform where that can execute
initialization functions this does seem like a security issue.

                        regards, tom lane

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