pgsql: Make wal_compression PGC_SUSET rather than PGC_USERSET. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Fujii Masao
Subject pgsql: Make wal_compression PGC_SUSET rather than PGC_USERSET.
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Msg-id E1ZDBvi-0003jJ-J0@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Make wal_compression PGC_SUSET rather than PGC_USERSET.

When enabling wal_compression, there is a risk to leak data similarly to
the BREACH and CRIME attacks on SSL where the compression ratio of
a full page image gives a hint of what is the existing data of this page.
This vulnerability is quite cumbersome to exploit in practice, but doable.

So this patch makes wal_compression PGC_SUSET in order to prevent
non-superusers from enabling it and exploiting the vulnerability while
DBA thinks the risk very seriously and disables it in postgresql.conf.

Back-patch to 9.5 where wal_compression was introduced.

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c2e5f4d1c16faa84a19906706481cf149769f320

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/config.sgml     |    1 +
src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c |    2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


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