Re: Converting contrib SQL functions to new style

Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 06:26:34PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Attached are some draft patches to convert almost all of the
>> contrib modules' SQL functions to use SQL-standard function bodies.
>> The point of this is to remove the residual search_path security
>> hazards that we couldn't fix in commits 7eeb1d986 et al.  Since
>> a SQL-style function body is fully parsed at creation time,
>> its object references are not subject to capture by the run-time
>> search path.

> Are there any inexact matches in those function/operator calls?  Will that
> matter more or less than it does today?

I can't claim to have looked closely for inexact matches.  It should
matter less than today, since there's a hazard only during creation
(with a somewhat-controlled search path) and not during use.  But
that doesn't automatically eliminate the issue.

>> I'd like to propose squeezing these changes into v14, even though
>> we're past feature freeze.  Reason one is that this is less a
>> new feature than a security fix; reason two is that this provides
>> some non-artificial test coverage for the SQL-function-body feature.

> Dogfooding like this is good.  What about the SQL-language functions that
> initdb creates?

Hadn't thought about those, but converting them seems like a good idea.

            regards, tom lane