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PostgreSQL Server Programming

You're reading from  PostgreSQL Server Programming

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516983
Pages 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

PostgreSQL Server Programming
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. What Is a PostgreSQL Server? 2. Server Programming Environment 3. Your First PL/pgSQL Function 4. Returning Structured Data 5. PL/pgSQL Trigger Functions 6. Debugging PL/pgSQL 7. Using Unrestricted Languages 8. Writing Advanced Functions in C 9. Scaling Your Database with PL/Proxy 10. Publishing Your Code as PostgreSQL Extensions Index

Will untrusted languages corrupt the database?


The power to corrupt the database is definitely there, since the functions run as the system user of the database server with full access to the filesystem. So, if you blindly start writing into the data files and deleting important logs, it is very likely that your database will be corrupted.

Additional types of denial-of-service attacks are also possible such as using up all memory or opening all IP ports; but there are ways to overload the database using plain SQL as well, so that part is not much different from the trusted database access with the ability to just run arbitrary queries.

So yes, you can corrupt the database, but please don't do it on a production server. If you do, you will be sorry.

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