| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src |
| Date: | 2002-08-13 14:38:00 |
| Message-ID: | 25724.1029249480@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
>> Marc's idea of matching signature files would be a better
>> safety-checking mechanism than just making the data directory's xlog
>> link hard to get at.
> I would like to have Marc's safeguards as well.
Yeah, I was lukewarm about that at first, but the more I think about it
the better it seems.
That does not change my opinion about the -X/PGXLOG switch though ---
having a backup safety check is not an excuse for having a fundamentally
insecure set of startup options.
regards, tom lane
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