Re: Idea for improving speed of pg_restore

that works too ... basically, adding 'security' for a "load nly" mode
shouldn't be to difficult

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, scott.marlowe wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, scott.marlowe wrote:
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> > > Not so sure on whether the foot gun is a good idea.  We already have .22
> > > calibre foot gun (fsync) that makes for pretty big improvements in load
> > > speed, and we see people all the time on General and Performance running
> > > production servers with it turned off.  You know as well as I do the
> > > second we make WAL optional, some people are gonna start running
> > > production servers with it.
> >
> > it shouldn't be too difficult to put some sort of restrictions on its
> > usual ... say if WAL disabled, max connections == 2? :)
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> Even better, restrict logins to superuser only, that way we could still
> have more than 2 things happening (think of a machine with a huge number
> of disks in a RAID array kinda thing) or only updateable / writeable by
> the superuser when in non-WAL mode.
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