>>>>> "R" == Robby Russell <robby.lists / planetargon.com> writes: R> Just be warned that it is *insecure* to some degree... Don't run R> PostgreSQL as root. ;-) Well, there are 2 problems : * don't run postgres as root * plruby run under the uid of postgres : this mean that potentially it can access physically the database on the disk. It's useless to have a database with username/password if you can bypass this restriction with plruby. Guy Decoux