Thanks. I was hoping there was a way to enable individual operators through the
postgresql configuration file or something.
Anyway, I replaced the functionality with $content =~
s/([a-fA-F0-9]{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg; which seems to be doing the same thing as
unpack( "H*", $content ), which is basically what I needed for the time being.
I suspect it's less efficient than unpack, and I hope the function I created
won't be too slow for use inside a trigger.
Thanks,
Herouth
On 12/09/2012, at 17:47, Tom Lane wrote:
> Herouth Maoz <[email protected]> writes:
>> I created a function that does some heavy string manipulation, so I needed
>> to use pl/perl rather than pl/pgsql.
>> I'm not experienced in perl, but the function works well when used as an
>> independent perl subroutine - it depends only on its arguments. I use the
>> Encode package (in postgresql configuration).
>
>> But my use of the "pack" function causes a Safe error. Apparently "pack" and
>> "unpack" are in the operator mask.
>
>> Is there any way to remove them from that mask?
>
> My recollection is that they're intentionally excluded because they
> would otherwise be security holes --- there are some format codes that
> allow direct access to memory, or something like that.
>
> regards, tom lane
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