Re: Resource management in 7.4 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Resource management in 7.4
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Msg-id 22783.1040531516@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Resource management in 7.4  (Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>)
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Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au> writes:
> ... The reason I've been thinking about it is some people I've been
> working with at universities have a problem with students effectively
> DoSing shared installations to affect assessment. This was something
> they had control over when they used Oracle :-(.

And the students have access to the administrative installation exactly
why?

This is not Oracle: you are not paying a per-installation license.
Put the students on their own box, and you'll have a situation way
more secure than when you used Oracle ;-)
        regards, tom lane


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