Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] External engines - security
Author Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
Roman Rokytskyy escreveu:
>> 1. Deal with it exactly like we do with UDFs (which certainly can send spam
>> and provide other undesired activity if written that way). But due to limited
>> access to them this it is not a security problem now.
>>
>
> I'd go this way. If somebody is needing a flexible language for stored
> procedures, he would have to choose between safe and slow Java (slow not
> because it's Java, but because security checks take some time and
> "context" switching between server and Java code takes some time) and
> between faster but unsafe Delphi or C++ procedures.
Roman, limiting ability of server security now means we never be able to
do non-limited things or we should deal with backward compatibility in
the future.


Adriano