Re: plperl security

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> OK, I have a setup that instead of refusing to load trusted functions if 
> the Safe version is not up to date, forces them to error out by calling 
> elog(ERROR...), thus:

> andrew=# select tval();
> ERROR:  trusted perl functions disabled - please upgrade perl Safe 
> module to at least 2.09

> This seems like perfectly reasonable recovery to me. Thoughts?

Works for me --- and it doesn't leak memory across repeated failures,
right?

Patch please?
        regards, tom lane