| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Thoughts on pg_hba.conf rejection |
| Date: | 2010-04-20 03:03:23 |
| Message-ID: | p2q603c8f071004192003sce502dbdz4acf7c64657c26a7@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Hmm. The AV launcher is only permitted to touch pg_database.
>
>> Perhaps we should add a TODO.
>
> Actually, while I'm looking at that code, a more immediate TODO is
> "fix walsender". Somebody has inserted an absolutely flight-of-fantasy
> code path into InitPostgres. (Hint: template1 can be dropped.
> ESPECIALLY when you're deliberately not taking any lock on it.)
Off-topic to that, but on-topic to the original topic of this thread,
check out this link that Karen Padir just blogged about on
planet.postgresql.org:
http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/02/postgres-fingerprinting.html
Assuming the situation really is as described here, I am wondering if
we should suppress the F, L, and R output in this and similar cases
and back-patch it all the way back. This seems like it is entirely
too helpful.
...Robert
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