| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Proof of concept: standalone backend with full FE/BE protocol |
| Date: | 2013-12-05 11:18:44 |
| Message-ID: | 20131205111844.GE14419@alap2.anarazel.de |
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On 2013-12-04 20:55:08 -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 12:11 +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> > If an application wants to allow these connection parameters to be
> > used, it would need to do PQenableStartServer() first. If it doesn't,
> > those connection parameters will be rejected.
>
> Stupid idea: Would it work that we require an environment variable to be
> set before we allow the standalone_backend connection parameter? That's
> easy to do, easy to audit, and doesn't require any extra code in the
> individual clients.
I still don't think it's ok to start forking in arbitrary applications
without their knowledge. So I don't think that buys us enough.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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