Hi, On 2020-10-27 15:24:35 -0400, John Naylor wrote: > As I mentioned in [1], I've volunteered to clear out the TODO list of items > that appear to be too difficult, controversial, or otherwise not worth > doing to warrant being listed there. I'll be working a few sections at a > time, and every so often I'll have a list of proposed items for removal. If > I don't hear objections, I'll remove the items after a few days while going > through the next set. > > Where there's an email thread, I've skimmed a few messages to get a sense > of the community's thoughts on it. Where easily determined, I've taken age > into account, insofar as something from 2017 is going to get much more > benefit of doubt than something from 2008. I've added after each item a > phrase that sums up the reason I believe it doesn't belong anymore. > Feedback welcome, of course, although I suspect there won't be much. >
> - Prevent query cancel packets from being replayed by an attacker, > especially when using SSL > Old and difficult FWIW, I don't think we should remove this. Our current solution has some serious issues that we should address at some point. > - Allow WAL replay of CREATE TABLESPACE to work when the directory > structure on the recovery computer is different from the original > Thread quote: "part of the difficult, perhaps-not-worth doing impossible > problems" I think we ought to do something here. Mostly because the current situation makes it impossible to test many things on a single system. And we have a partial solution with the tablespace mapping files. Greetings, Andres Freund