Tightening the trust auth advice

2023-01-12 Thread Magnus Hagander
The page at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-trust.html goes through some length to explain why Trust is sometimes a good idea. Is it really though? And in particular, aren't there better choices? As a first step, I think we should put a box on the page explicitly saying that that tr

Re: The documentation for storage type 'plain' actually allows single byte header

2023-01-12 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Tue, 2023-01-10 at 15:53 +, PG Doc comments form wrote: > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/storage-toast.html - This is the > development version. > > > PLAIN prevents either compression or out-of-line storage; furthermore it > > disables use of single-byte headers for varlena types. T

Background worker

2023-01-12 Thread PG Doc comments form
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/bgworker.html Description: Hi Team, The glossary is a really nice summary of what each term means. The background worker gives a nice summary as to what it does "Background worker (proce

Re: Tightening the trust auth advice

2023-01-12 Thread Jonathan S. Katz
On 1/12/23 4:32 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: The page at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-trust.html goes through some length to explain why Trust is sometimes a good idea. Is it really though? And in particular, aren't there