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: > > > > > > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, scott.marlowe wrote: > > > > > 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? :) > > 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. > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]