Re: postgres uptime

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: postgres uptime
Date: 2004-08-20 09:41:00
Message-ID: 4125C72C.5040004@bigfoot.com
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Tom Lane wrote:

> I'd like to see more than one person requesting this (and with solider
> rationales) before it gets added to TODO. If I wanted to be picky I
> would suggest that knowledge of the server start time might be useful
> information to an attacker. It would for instance narrow down the
> number of possible starting seeds for the postmaster's random number
> generator.

Good point, however I can add that also the versione engine knowledge
could be a good start point.

Gaetano

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