Allowing that is a security hole, since there are many different functions with different ideas of what their "internal" argument or result is. We already had a defense against the easy case of "'foo'::internal", but that turns out to be insufficient. Lock down both function and operator syntax. Also disallow attempts to cast to or from type internal; those would mostly fail anyway, but we have created some holes with features such as CoerceViaIO. Reported-by: Amy Burnett (OpenAI Codex Security) Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Backpatch-through: 14 Security: CVE-2026-14680
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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