Re: Problem with accesing Oracle from plperlu functionwhen using remote pg client.

Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <
> heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> 
>> Because that's what a respectable business does when a customer runs into a
>> bug with software they sell.
> 
> It's not a bug, it's expected behavior.

You really call it expected that a process with a parenthesis in the 
process title can't use OCI, but gets an obscure error message instead? 
Sure, it's a corner case, and in most cases it can be worked around, but 
it's still a bug.

Hmm, I wonder if you could do something malicious with it. Like, run a 
query along the lines of "SELECT $$ (HOST=10.0.0.123) $$, connect()... " 
to divert the connection to another server.

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