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From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: RDS and postgres extension approval
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 21:28:50 -0500
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On 10/21/21 8:50 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 6:48 PM Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com 
> <mailto:wells.oliver@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Is there anything out there written about what trusted means? The PG
>     community seems pretty trusting :)
>
>
> It basically means the programming language allows the author of the code 
> to*break out of the server and access the underlying operating system* as 
> the postgres user.  I believe this is written in the docs - but I haven't 
> searched recently.
>
Which -- by design -- RDS won't let you do.  Thus, the lack of untrusted 
modules.

-- 
Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.

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