On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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?
Should have made this clearer. Students had a shared system to prepare
assessments. Some students were DoSing Postgres so that other students
could not finish assignments. Yes: the students should run their own
installations, they should not need to have 100% uptime. But it didn't
happen like that. It got me thinking...
Gavin
