From: ts Date: 2005-10-07T17:50:22+09:00 Subject: Re: PL/Ruby segfaults >>>>> "R" == Robby Russell writes: R> Just be warned that it is *insecure* to some degree... Don't run R> PostgreSQL as root. ;-) Well, there are 2 problems : * don't run postgres as root * plruby run under the uid of postgres : this mean that potentially it can access physically the database on the disk. It's useless to have a database with username/password if you can bypass this restriction with plruby. Guy Decoux