On January 18, 2016 11:10:35 PM GMT+01:00, Stephen Frost <[email protected]> wrote: >* Robert Haas ([email protected]) wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Andres Freund <[email protected]> >wrote: >> > Meh, that seems pretty far into pseudo security arguments. >> >> Yeah, I really don't see anything in the pg_controldata output that >> looks sensitive. The WAL locations are the closest of anything, >> AFAICS. > >Heikki already showed how the WAL location information could be >exploited if compression is enabled. > >I believe that's something we should care about and fix in one way or >another (my initial approach was using defualt roles, but using the ACL >system and starting out w/ no rights granted to that function also >works).
Sure. But it's pointless to make things more complicated when there's functions providing equivalent information already. --- Please excuse brevity and formatting - I am writing this on my mobile phone. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
