On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > Sure. But you don't run your middleware as root (I hope ;-)) and you > shouldn't run it in untrusted server-side languages either. I agree Actually - I don't practically care, and in fact I'm doing things that are unsafe...But, I agree, others may think differently ;)
> with Andrew that it's important to figure out how to make DBI usable > in trusted plperl. Obviously this isn't happening in time for 8.0, > but it deserves a place on the TODO list. It's interesting but its probably a untrivial effort to make DBI itself Safe-safe. Probably it would require starting with DBI::PurePerl (non-XS version) and adding a mode that would disable all unSafe activity (such as file operations etc etc)... -alex ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
