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Subject Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM as a denial-of-service attack
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.9911291653130.69193-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to VACUUM as a denial-of-service attack  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Tom Lane wrote:

> I think a reasonable answer to this is to restrict VACUUM on any
> table to be allowed only to the table owner and Postgres superuser.
> Does anyone have an objection or better idea?

To me, this sounds perfectly reasonable and sane...

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