Hi, On 2019-09-10 19:14:19 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > I think the way forward here is to get rid of all uses of system() for > calling between PostgreSQL programs. There are only a handful of those, > and we already have well-tested replacement code like spawn_process() in > pg_regress.c that could be used. (Perhaps we could also use that > opportunity to get rid of the need for shell quoting?)
Yea, I think that'd be good, regardless of SIP. > There is a minor second issue, namely that /usr/bin/perl also filters > out DYLD_* environment variables. This can be worked around again by > using a third-party installation of Perl. You just need to make sure > that the "prove" program calls that installation instead of the system > one. (I just manually edited the shebang line. There is probably a > proper way to do it.) Hm, could we just have perl code set DYLD_* again? I assume we don't need prove itself to have it set, and for the testscripts we could just set it in TestLib.pm or such? Greetings, Andres Freund
