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Andrew Dunstan e089e04d3e Abandon the use of Perl's Safe.pm to enforce restrictions in plperl, as it is
fundamentally insecure. Instead apply an opmask to the whole interpreter that
imposes restrictions on unsafe operations. These restrictions are much harder
to subvert than is Safe.pm, since there is no container to be broken out of.
Backported to release 7.4.

In releases 7.4, 8.0 and 8.1 this also includes the necessary backporting of
the two interpreters model for plperl and plperlu adopted in release 8.2.

In versions 8.0 and up, the use of Perl's POSIX module to undo its locale
mangling on Windows has become insecure with these changes, so it is
replaced by our own routine, which is also faster.

Nice side effects of the changes include that it is now possible to use perl's
"strict" pragma in a natural way in plperl, and that perl's $a and
$b variables now work as expected in sort routines, and that function
compilation is significantly faster.

Tim Bunce and Andrew Dunstan, with reviews from Alex Hunsaker and
Alexey Klyukin.

Security: CVE-2010-1169
2010-05-13 16:44:03 +00:00
config New version of mkinstalldirs fixes problems on Tru64 UNIX. 2005-01-08 09:54:29 +00:00
contrib Ensure that contrib/pgstattuple functions respond to cancel interrupts 2010-04-02 16:17:24 +00:00
doc Abandon the use of Perl's Safe.pm to enforce restrictions in plperl, as it is 2010-05-13 16:44:03 +00:00
src Abandon the use of Perl's Safe.pm to enforce restrictions in plperl, as it is 2010-05-13 16:44:03 +00:00
aclocal.m4 Add new auto-detection of thread flags. 2004-04-23 18:15:55 +00:00
configure tag 8.0.24, not .23 2010-03-12 03:59:00 +00:00
configure.in tag 8.0.24, not .23 2010-03-12 03:59:00 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Tag appropriate files for rc3 2004-12-31 22:04:05 +00:00
GNUmakefile.in Add installcheck-parallel target to top level makefiles. 2006-08-18 19:59:05 +00:00
Makefile Add installcheck-parallel target to top level makefiles. 2006-08-18 19:59:05 +00:00
README Remove more traces of libpgtcl from the source tree. Also, make some 2004-10-01 02:00:44 +00:00
README.CVS Some further editorializing on README.CVS. 2004-03-28 06:09:08 +00:00

PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================
  
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

The JDBC, ODBC, C++, Python, and Tcl interfaces have been moved to the
PostgreSQL Projects Web Site at http://gborg.postgresql.org for separate
maintenance.  A Perl DBI/DBD driver is available from CPAN.

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