On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Markus Wanner <mar...@bluegap.ch> wrote: > One way to resolve that - and that seems to be the direction Dimitri's > patch is going - is to make the extension depend on its template. (And > thereby breaking the mental model of a template, IMO. In the spirit of > that mental model, one could argue that code for stored procedures > shouldn't be duplicated, but instead just reference its ancestor.)
The security problems with this model have been discussed in every email thread about the extension template feature. There is a lot of (well-founded, IMHO) resistance to the idea of letting users install C code via an SQL connection. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
