Re: pg_terminate_backend

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Andreas Pflug" <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_terminate_backend
Date: 2006-08-18 13:48:21
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA35553@algol.sollentuna.se
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> > Though for the Windows case only, we could easily enough make it
> > possible to run pg_ctl kill remotely, since we use a named pipe.
> Does
> > this seem like a good or bad idea?
>
> Seems like we'd be opening a can of security worms :-(

Not really, standard windows ACL already applies to everything, so you
need to be an admin on the machine to make it work.

Anyhoo, I don't really see the gain in it, which also seems to be what
others think, so let's just drop that idea.

//Magnus

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