Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
This was simply about changing the user permissions needed to run CREATE FUNCTION ... LANGUAGE "C" so that distros/packages could have whatever module they want packaged (in system RPM/DEB/PKG context) and available on the system in a way that databases owners could install them into their PostgreSQL database (using the current psql < earthdistance.sql methods) without getting ISP/superuser assistance.
That's not going to happen, at least not like that - the security implications are just horrible. We have recently relaxed the rules relating to installation of trusted languages by database owners. But to extend that to modules in general we'd need some way of designating modules as safe or not.
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