Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes:
> Are there any plans to disallow regex matching in postgreSQL as well ???
> AFAIK there are simpler ways to hog a DB server as anyone writing
> SQL queries can tell you ;)
That was my reaction too --- disabling regexes is not appropriate for
the Postgres environment. But we do need to prevent access to the
filesystem, even if it's just read-only access.
regards, tom lane