| Goal | Find SECURITY INVOKER routines that read rows from a table, add rows to a table, update rows in a table, or delete rows from a table. Better to have for these purposes SECURITY DEFINER routines, which make it possible to give to the users privileges to only execute routines without having rights to access their underlying tables. |
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| Notes | Refers to the column pg_proc.prokind and thus works starting from PostgreSQL 11. In the returned body of routine the query replaces each newline character with the line break (br) tag for the better readability in case the query result is displayed in a web browser. There could be multiple routines with the same name but with different parameters in the same schema (overloading). Thus, for the unique identification of the routine it is necessary to present also its parameters in addition to the schema name and routine name. The query does not consider routines that are a part of an extension. |
| Type | Problem detection Each row in the result could represent a flaw in the design |
| Reliability | High Few or no false-positive results |
| License | MIT (opens in new tab) |
| Fixing Suggestion | If you change a routine to SECURITY DEFINER, then do not forget to specify the search path. |
| Data Source | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog |
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Collections
This query belongs to the following collections:
Find problems automatically
Queries, that results point to problems in the database. Each query in the collection produces an initial assessment. However, a human reviewer has the final say as to whether there is a problem or not .
| Name | Description |
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| Find problems automatically | Queries, that results point to problems in the database. Each query in the collection produces an initial assessment. However, a human reviewer has the final say as to whether there is a problem or not . |
Categories
This query is classified under the following categories:
Does not work in some earlier PostgreSQL version
Queries of this category provide information that was not available in some earlier PostgreSQL version
Security
Queries of this category provide information about the security measures.
User-defined routines
Queries of this category provide information about the user-defined routines
| Name | Description |
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| Does not work in some earlier PostgreSQL version | Queries of this category provide information that was not available in some earlier PostgreSQL version |
| Security | Queries of this category provide information about the security measures. |
| User-defined routines | Queries of this category provide information about the user-defined routines |