Re: Transaction Snapshot Cloning - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Transaction Snapshot Cloning
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Msg-id 7120.1200157045@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Transaction Snapshot Cloning  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Transaction Snapshot Cloning  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
Re: Transaction Snapshot Cloning  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 19:23 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> [ blanches... ]  Can you say "security hole"?

> Static on the line, sorry. 
> I'm hearing "useful superuser-only capability". ;-)

It would be far *more* useful if it didn't have to be superuser-only.
And since the actual details of the snapshot content are really of
zero interest to the user, I think making it pass through his hands
is simply misdesign.
        regards, tom lane


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