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by traceroute66 249 days ago
> Why does it have to be an extension?

Same sentiment here.

Its 2025, the necessity of the principle of least privilege is greater than ever.

I'm not installing random third-party postgres extensions. Even in dev environments. Sorry.

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I run plpgsql_check extension (packaged by Debian) in a test-only container, which only live for the duration of automated tests. It’s alright.