Re: Incomplete startup packet errors - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: Incomplete startup packet errors
Date
Msg-id 20160414.063414.1697793311576261462.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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In response to Re: Incomplete startup packet errors  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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>> Is it possible a user want the log because he/she wants to notice that
>> the system is being attacked?
> 
> Yeah, but it doesn't seem very likely, because:
> 
> 1. If the system is on the Internet, it's definitely being attacked, and
> 
> 2. The attacks that connect to a port and then disconnect are not the
> ones you should be most worried about, and
> 
> 3. The right way to detect attacks is through OS-level monitoring or
> firewall-level monitoring, and nothing we do in PG is going to come
> close to the same value.

Ok, that makes sense.

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--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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