Re: [BUGS] Dropped connection during COPY causes trouble - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

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> BTW, it occurs to me that the system ought to have provisions for
> limiting the size of the logfile, rotating logfiles from time to
> time, etc ... right now you cannot do those things easily except
> by restarting the postmaster :-(.  Even without this bug, a determined
> attacker could create a DOS attack by doing EXPLAIN VERBOSE enough
> times to run the postmaster logfile up to full disk.  Bruce, I think
> we need another TODO item:
>   * prevent postmaster logfile from growing without bound

Not sure this really is a PostgreSQL issue.  Other OS systems have this
problem too.

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