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?

Don't we have bigger DoS attacks? Certainly SELECT cash_out(1) is a
much bigger one.

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