Re: Standby Mode

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Standby Mode
Date: 2006-08-03 12:39:21
Message-ID: 2857.1154608761@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:49 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The archiver is deliberately designed not to be connected to shared
>> memory. If you want to change that you'll have to make a very strong
>> case why we should give up the safety and security advantages of it.

> We should let the user decide.

Really? The way we let the user decide whether to run as root or not?
I don't think we make security-related decisions that way.

You haven't actually explained what you want this for, so the entire
discussion is operating in a vacuum ...

regards, tom lane

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