Re: PG 12 draft release notes

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 09:11:08AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 03:33:48PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 05:25:37PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Since we did not backpatch this fix, I am hesitant to spell out exactly
> > > how to exploit this DOS attack. Yes, people can read it in the email
> > > archives, and commit messages, but I don't see the value in spelling it
> > > out the release notes too.
> >
> > We could go for a more general version of that, for the reason that it
> > involves all relations, like:
> > "A caller of TRUNCATE or VACUUM could previously queue for an access
> > exclusive lock on a relation it may not have permission to truncate or
> > vacuum, leading to relations to be blocked from being accessed."
>
> Uh, that still seems to suggest an attack and I am not sure that
> information is very useful to users.

I went with this wording:

This prevents unauthorized locking, which could interfere with
user queries.

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