Re: MySQL interview, no mention of PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: MySQL interview, no mention of PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 1066416463.580.31.camel@tokyo
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In response to Re: MySQL interview, no mention of PostgreSQL  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 07:23, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> We don't want to fire up a backend until we know this is a valid user.

We do the fork() before we even look at the client's connection packet,
so I'm sceptical that going through all that trouble really makes us
significantly more resistant to a DOS attack.

-Neil



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