[GENERAL] Questions regarding SET option.

2010-02-22 Thread Jignesh Shah
Hello All, I have been writing a function with SECURITY DEFINER enabled. Basically, I am looking for ways to override the users SET option settings while executing my function to prevent the permissions breach. For example, to override SET search_path, I am setting search path in my function

Re: [GENERAL] Questions regarding SET option.

2010-02-22 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello you can overwrite standard settings only for function CREATE [ OR REPLACE ] FUNCTION name ( [ [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [ { DEFAULT | = } default_expr ] [, ...] ] ) [ RETURNS rettype | RETURNS TABLE ( column_name column_type [, ...] ) ] { LANGUAGE lang_name |

Re: [GENERAL] Questions regarding SET option.

2010-02-22 Thread Albe Laurenz
Jignesh Shah wrote: I have been writing a function with SECURITY DEFINER enabled. Basically, I am looking for ways to override the users SET option settings while executing my function to prevent the permissions breach. For example, to override SET search_path, I am setting search path in

Re: [GENERAL] Questions regarding SET option.

2010-02-22 Thread Jignesh Shah
Thanks a ton Laurenz and Pavel for your responses but I really didn't follow you. I am not master in PostGreSQL yet. Could you please give me some example? Basically, I want to know how many such SET options I should reset before executing my function and at the end it should also be restored to

Re: [GENERAL] Questions regarding SET option.

2010-02-22 Thread Pavel Stehule
2010/2/22 Jignesh Shah jignesh.shah1...@gmail.com: Thanks a ton Laurenz and Pavel for your responses but I really didn't follow you. I am not master in PostGreSQL yet. Could you please give me some example? Basically, I want to know how many such SET options I should reset before executing

Re: [GENERAL] Questions regarding SET option.

2010-02-22 Thread Jignesh Shah
set work_mem to '1MB' set search_path = 'public'; Thanks for the example Pavel. I understood it. Are there any other SET options except above that I need to set to prevent security breach? Thanks, Jack On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Pavel Stehule pavel.steh...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/2/22

Re: [GENERAL] Questions regarding SET option.

2010-02-22 Thread Pavel Stehule
2010/2/22 Jignesh Shah jignesh.shah1...@gmail.com: set work_mem to '1MB' set search_path = 'public'; Thanks for the example Pavel. I understood it. Are there any other SET options except above that I need to set to prevent security breach? I am not sure - I know only search_path Pavel