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Re: Streaming replication status

Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>

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From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: "Greg Smith" <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, "Stefan Kaltenbrunner" <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
Cc: "Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>, "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, "Fujii Masao" <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-15T16:55:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
 
> In many of the more secure environments I've worked in (finance, 
> defense), there is *no* access to the database server beyond what
> comes out of port 5432 without getting a whole separate team of
> people involved.  If the DBA can write a simple monitoring program
> themselves that presents data via the one port that is exposed,
> that makes life easier for them.
 
Right, we don't want to give the monitoring software an OS login for
the database servers, for security reasons.
 
-Kevin