Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-13T14:38:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.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