Hi,

On 2019-08-28 13:28:06 -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
> > To compute the initial set of allowed system calls, you need to have
> > fantastic test coverage.  What you don't want is some rarely used error
> > recovery path to cause a system crash.  I wouldn't trust our current
> > coverage for this.

> So if you are worried about that make your default action 'log' and
> watch audit.log. There will be no errors or crashes of postgres caused
> by that because there will be no change in postgres visible behavior.

But the benefit of integrating this into postgres become even less
clear.


> And if returning an error from a syscall causes a crash that would be a
> serious bug and we should fix it.

Err, there's a lot of syscall failures that'll cause PANICs, and where
there's no reasonable way around that.

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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