Re: Permissions on CHECKPOINT

Tom Lane wrote:
>Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> Mikheev, Vadim writes:
>>> Yes, there should be permission checking - I'll add it later (in 7.1)
>>> if no one else.
>
>> Should be simple enough. Is this okay:
>
>Actually, I think a more interesting question is "should CHECKPOINT
>have permission restrictions? If so, what should they be?"
>
>A quite relevant precedent is that Unix systems (at least the ones
>I've used) do not restrict who can call sync().

What about DoS attacks? What would be the effect of someone's setting
off an infinite loop of CHECKPOINTs?

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