"Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> The earlier objections to AdminPack were about functions that write to
> files. These functions just read data, not write them. So there's no
> objection there, AFAICS.
Au contraire, both reading and writing are issues. But I had
misunderstood your original proposal as being for functions that would
read/write arbitrary files, so limiting it to access to database tables
(and making it superuser-only) probably is sufficient to cure that complaint.
regards, tom lane