Re: Re: [PATCHES] PostgreSQL virtual hosting support

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "David J(dot) MacKenzie" <djm(at)web(dot)us(dot)uu(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCHES] PostgreSQL virtual hosting support
Date: 2000-11-14 01:14:32
Message-ID: 20067.974164472@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> I think we had some discussions about changing the way that shared
>> memory keys are generated, which might make this a less critical issue.
>> But until something's done about that, this patch looks awfully
>> dangerous.

> But do we yank it out for that reason? I don't think so.

Do you want to put a bright red "THIS FEATURE MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR
DATA" warning in the manual? I think it'd be rather irresponsible of
us to ship the patch without such a warning, unless someone builds a
replacement interlock capability (or gets rid of the need for the
interlock).

regards, tom lane

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