Hi Joe,

Exactly how I marked it :)

Thanks,

Oleg

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Joe Conway <m...@joeconway.com> wrote:

> On 01/05/2016 04:32 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> > On 1/5/2016 4:12 PM, oleg yusim wrote:
> >> I meant a scenario, when user is trying to connect to database
> >> (doesn't matter what interface) and database fails at this moment. If
> >> all authentication/authorization/validation functions are written to
> >> return false in case of abnormal termination, we are fine. If not, we
> >> can potentially encounter the situation when database fails into state
> >> where user is given greater privileges than he/she should or even
> >> authenticated, when he/she shouldn't.
> >
> > if the postgres server processes terminate for any reason, there's
> > nothing to connect to.      the client application will get a error like
> > 'connection refused' back from the connection attempt, or if it was
> > already connected and the server aborts, the next query will return an
> > error like CONNECTION_BAD.      there's no possible privilege elevation.
>
> +1
>
> I think you can call this one "Applicable -- Inherently Meets"
>
> Joe
>
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