On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
>> A customer of ours has the need for temporary functions.
>
> You can do that now:
>
> regression=# create function pg_temp.foo(f1 int) returns int
> regression-# as 'select $1+1' language sql;
> CREATE FUNCTION
> regression=# select pg_temp.foo(1);
>  foo
> -----
>   2
> (1 row)
>
> You do have to qualify the name explicitly:
>
> regression=# select foo(1);
> ERROR:  function foo(integer) does not exist
>
> The latter is an intentional security feature and will not get changed.

I see that there could be a problem here with SECURITY DEFINER
functions, but I'm not clear whether it goes beyond that?

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Robert Haas
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