Re: Dumping an Extension's Script

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> writes:
>> On 2012-12-05 13:18:16 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I think you're wasting your time to imagine that that case will ever be
>>> "fixed".  Allowing the server to scribble on executable files would set
>>> off all kinds of security alarm bells, and rightly so.  If Postgres ever
>>> did ship with such a thing, I rather imagine that I'd be required to
>>> patch it out of Red Hat releases (not that SELinux wouldn't prevent
>>> it from happening anyway).

> That part I did understand. I still can't be happy about it, but I won't
> get back with any proposal where that's put into questions. That said,
> while you're talking about it, what if it's an opt-in GUC?

GUC or no GUC, it'd still be letting an unprivileged network-exposed
application (PG) do something that's against any sane system-level
security policy.  Lipstick is not gonna help this pig.
        regards, tom lane