Re: Remaining beta blockers

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Remaining beta blockers
Date: 2013-04-30 11:00:13
Message-ID: 20130430110013.GG4361@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Robert Haas (robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> If you assume that people are going to modify files while the backend
> is running, nothing we do anywhere is safe.

I agree that it's a bad idea and that people who do such things deserve
what they get, but that doesn't mean it won't happen when people realize
they can do it.

And, really, it's all fun and games until someone writes a tool to do
it...

Thanks,

Stephen

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