Hi all,
there have been a couple of questions WRT doing untrustable things like file access, LDAP and the like from
inside of triggers or functions.
Tcl is a powerful language and could do all that, but the interpreter used in PL/Tcl is a safe one, because
it is a trusted procedural language (any non-superuser can create functions). I think it should be pretty
easy to build a second PL handler into the module, that executes the procedures in a full featured Tcl
interpreter,that has all capabilities. This one would be installed as an untrusted PL, so only DB superusers
could create functions in that language.
Should I go for it and if so, how should this language be named?
Jan
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