Re: pg_terminate_backend - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: pg_terminate_backend
Date
Msg-id 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA35553@algol.sollentuna.se
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In response to Re: pg_terminate_backend  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
> > Though for the Windows case only, we could easily enough make it
> > possible to run pg_ctl kill remotely, since we use a named pipe.
> Does
> > this seem like a good or bad idea?
>
> Seems like we'd be opening a can of security worms :-(

Not really, standard windows ACL already applies to everything, so you
need to be an admin on the machine to make it work.

Anyhoo, I don't really see the gain in it, which also seems to be what
others think, so let's just drop that idea.

//Magnus



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