Re: Is passing a list as a bound variable safe from SQL injection?

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Federico Di Gregorio <fog@dndg.it> wrote:
> On 02/10/2013 18:31, W. Matthew Wilson wrote:
> [snip]
>> This is the approach (and it does involve very long lists):
>>
>> http://www.datadoghq.com/2013/08/100x-faster-postgres-performance-by-changing-1-line/
>>
>> Instead of writing = any(array[1,2,3,4]), they wrote = any(values (1),
>> (2), (3), (4), )
>>
>> and somehow that works more quickly.
>
> Hi Matthew,
>
> you can override the list adapter and have it generate the "values"
> expression instead of an array. See this example:
>
> http://www.psycopg.org/psycopg/docs/advanced.html?highlight=adapt#adapting-new-python-types-to-sql-syntax

Interesting indeed. Too bad in the article there is no reference to
the discussion in -performance about the issue (or is there and I
haven't seen it?).

Here is an adapter that can be used to wrap a sequence and pass it to VALUES:

https://gist.github.com/dvarrazzo/6809387

Unfortunately it seems there is no way to create the gist under the
psycopg organization on github.

-- Daniele