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PostgreSQL's stability,
Rostislav Matl <xmatl@informatics.muni.cz> — 1998-08-23T13:25:29Z
Hi, Browsing through MySQL pages I've found crashme tests including note about PostgreSQL that "Anybody with access to database can get it down". It's that true ? I've not mentioned such behaviour... Thanks. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ROSTISLAV MATL, student of Masaryk University - Faculty of Informatics | | e-mail: xmatl@fi.muni.cz WWW: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xmatl/index.html | | ICQ#: 17058749 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL's stability,
Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> — 1998-08-23T16:15:00Z
On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Rostislav Matl wrote: > > Hi, > Browsing through MySQL pages I've found crashme tests including > note about PostgreSQL that "Anybody with access to database > can get it down". It's that true ? I've not mentioned such > behaviour... There have been, in the past, several bugs that resulted in corruption of the shared memory error that all postgres processes use. The result of that corruption was that all the backends would either die out, or require the superuser to kill them off and restart them. As we have 'evolved', and those bugs are reported, they have been addressed, and the likelihood of that happening in current releases has dropped dramatically. The more ppl that have access to the server, the better the chance of it happening, since you have better odds that someone will happen to trigger it. If this is a large concern, though, what you can do is setup a 'server' for each client/user wishing to use it, so that they have their own virtual area to work in, so that one person doesn't affect another. It uses up more resources that way, but if you are more concerned with one client not affecting another, and not with resources, then that would be a safer way to go... Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org -
Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL's stability,
Christopher S. Weimann <cweimann@wallnet.com> — 1998-08-23T16:36:44Z
On Sun, Aug 23, 1998 at 03:25:29PM +0200, Rostislav Matl wrote: > > Hi, > Browsing through MySQL pages I've found crashme tests including > note about PostgreSQL that "Anybody with access to database > can get it down". It's that true ? I've not mentioned such > behaviour... > Thanks. And MySql has/had a bug where telnetting to its port would prevent anyone else from accessing the server. Everything has problems and they typically get fixed. It doesn't surprise me that MySql lists that and doesn't give version numbers or any justification. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Christopher Weimann SysAdmin Wall Internet LLC. Email: cweimann@wallnet.com PO Box 255 Web: http://www.wallnet.com/~cweimann Manasquan NJ, 08736 732-223-1777 ------------------------------------------------------------