Re: Permissions on CHECKPOINT

Tom Lane wrote: >Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes: >> Mikheev, Vadim writes: >>> Yes, there should be
permissionchecking - I'll add it later (in 7.1) >>> if no one else. > >> Should be simple enough.  Is this okay: >
>Actually,I think a more interesting question is "should CHECKPOINT >have permission restrictions?  If so, what should
theybe?" > >A quite relevant precedent is that Unix systems (at least the ones >I've used) do not restrict who can call
sync().

What about DoS attacks?  What would be the effect of someone's setting
off an infinite loop of CHECKPOINTs?

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