| From: | Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Sander Steffann <sander(at)steffann(dot)nl>, Michael Paesold <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Resource management in 7.4 |
| Date: | 2002-12-22 06:01:19 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.21.0212221657360.22722-100000@linuxworld.com.au |
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On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > ... The reason I've been thinking about it is some people I've been
> > working with at universities have a problem with students effectively
> > DoSing shared installations to affect assessment. This was something
> > they had control over when they used Oracle :-(.
>
> And the students have access to the administrative installation exactly
> why?
Should have made this clearer. Students had a shared system to prepare
assessments. Some students were DoSing Postgres so that other students
could not finish assignments. Yes: the students should run their own
installations, they should not need to have 100% uptime. But it didn't
happen like that. It got me thinking...
Gavin
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