> Mark Volpe writes:
>
> > Good point. Would the issue be resolved by either:
> >
> > - Only allowing the database superuser to use this mechanism?
>
> If you mean "only allow a superuser do define functions using this
> mechanism", that could work. But it would probably make this feature a
> lot less attractive, because any setuid function would have to run with
> super powers.
Patch backed out until we resolve the security issues. It remains in
the patch queue.
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