2009/9/14 Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> > wrote: >>> How is it any worse than what people can already do? Anyone who isn't aware >>> of the dangers of SQL injection has already screwed themselves. You're >>> basically arguing that they would put a variable inside of quotes, but they >>> would never use ||. >> >> simply - people use functions quote_literal or quote_ident. > > you still have use of those functions: > execute sprintf('select * from %s', quote_ident($1)); > > sprintf is no more or less dangerous than || operator.
sure. I commented different feature some := 'select * from $1' regards Pavel p.s. In this case, I am not sure what is more readable: execute 'select * from ' || quote_ident($1) is readable well too. > > merlin > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers