| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [BUGS] Dropped connection during COPY causes trouble |
| Date: | 1999-07-22 01:08:41 |
| Message-ID: | 199907220108.VAA17369@candle.pha.pa.us |
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>
> BTW, it occurs to me that the system ought to have provisions for
> limiting the size of the logfile, rotating logfiles from time to
> time, etc ... right now you cannot do those things easily except
> by restarting the postmaster :-(. Even without this bug, a determined
> attacker could create a DOS attack by doing EXPLAIN VERBOSE enough
> times to run the postmaster logfile up to full disk. Bruce, I think
> we need another TODO item:
> * prevent postmaster logfile from growing without bound
Not sure this really is a PostgreSQL issue. Other OS systems have this
problem too.
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