Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Will untrusted languages corrupt the
database?
The power to corrupt the database is definitely there, since the functions run as the
system user of the database server with full access to the filesystem. So, if you blindly
start writing into the data files and deleting important logs, it is very likely that your
database will be corrupted.
Additional types of denial-of-service attacks are also possible such as using up all
memory or opening all IP ports; but there are ways to overload the database using
plain SQL as well, so that part is not much different from the trusted database access
with the ability to just run arbitrary queries.
So yes, you can corrupt the database, but please don't do it on a production server. If
you do, you will be sorry.
