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From: Joe Conway <[email protected]>
To: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: CREATE FUNCTION ... SEARCH { DEFAULT | SYSTEM | SESSION }
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2023 09:50:25 -0400
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On 8/12/23 09:15, Joe Conway wrote:
> On 8/11/23 22:35, Jeff Davis wrote:
>> 2. We can more accurately serve the user's intent. For instance, the
>> safe search_path of "pg_catalog, pg_temp" is arcane and seems to be
>> there just because we don't have a way to specify that pg_temp be
>> excluded entirely. But perhaps in the future we *do* want to exclude
>> pg_temp entirely. Knowing that the user just wants "SEARCH SYSTEM"
>> allows us some freedom to do that.
> 
> Personally I think having pg_temp in the SYSTEM search path makes sense
> for temp tables, but I find it easy to forget that functions can be
> created by unprivileged users in pg_temp, and therefore having pg_temp
> in the search path for functions is dangerous.

Hmm, I guess I was too hasty -- seems we have some magic related to this 
already.

-- 
Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
RDS Open Source Databases
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

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