On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 05:14:24PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: > > Yes, I can see that happening. I think occasional leakage of hint bit > > changes to be acceptable. We might decide they are all acceptable. > > I don't think that I agree with the idea that this would ultimately only > leak the hint bits- I'm fairly sure that this would make it relatively > trivial for an attacker to be able to deduce the contents of the entire > 8k page. I don't know that we should be willing to accept that as a > part of regular operation (which we generally view crashes as being). I > had thought there was something in place to address this though. If > not, it does seem like there should be.
Uh, can you please explain more? Would the hint bits leak? In another email you said hint bit leaking was OK. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com If only the physical world exists, free will is an illusion.
