Re: Request: Revive the security-specific section

Alvaro,

That's exactly what I'd hope to see as well.

On Sat, May 5, 2018, 12:45 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On 5/2/18 18:59, Ian Maddox wrote:
>
> > > It appears that the knowledge from that page has been redistributed
> > > across the manual in versions 8+, making it difficult to point to a
> > > single authoritative resource. I'm writing to request that a single
> > > section on security be revived in a future revision of the manual.
> >
> > I see where you are coming from. However, I think security concerns
> > exist in every aspect of the system. So as a user when I'm dealing
> > with operating system integration, or schema design, or backups, or
> > replication, or monitoring, etc., then I want to know about the
> > security concerns on that subject.
>
> Curiously enough, we got a request on the Spanish list today
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CALhQua6tAY+b+oH10OOm24sank43quQoVnoZpPDO5r6YQ4eXow@mail.gmail.com
> about a "hardening guide". I think it is not completely out of the
> question to have a separate slim section listing things to keep in mind
> in order to harden a PostgreSQL installation. It doesn't have to be
> terribly thorough -- rather it'd be mostly links to other places in the
> docs where detailed information about each element can be found.
>
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