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REPLICATION users were not previously subject to restrictions on output plugin paths, so they were able to bypass LOAD-time protections during logical decoding. Unfortunately, adding the standard LOAD restrictions now would retroactively require all third-party output plugins to be installed under the $libdir/plugins directory. This would prevent the use of dynamic_library_path, introduce a wire incompatibility for clients, and require all plugin authors to check that their libraries are safe for use by any unprivileged user; we want to avoid that. Instead, introduce an output_plugin_libraries GUC so that DBAs can specify the output plugins that are trusted for use in logical decoding. For simplicity, superusers are subject to the restriction as well (though they're free to modify the GUC at will during a session, so no power is actually lost). The default setting is 'pgoutput, test_decoding'. If other third-party plugins are in use, DBAs will need to modify this parameter after they update. Some pointers have been added to the documentation to assist with this. Author: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> Reported-by: Vladimir Tokarev <vladimirelitokarev@gmail.com> Reported-by: Yu Kunpeng <yu443940816@live.com> Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de> Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Backpatch-through: 14 Security: CVE-2026-6471
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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