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From: Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: need suggestion on querying big tables
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 23:59:35 -0500
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On 12/5/22 09:45, Ron wrote:
> A "just smart enough" user could perform an inadvertent Denial of 
> Service attack on the database by cranking his session work_mem really 
> high, no?

Well, some of the applications that I've seen during my career could 
qualify as Denial of Service suicide attack.

-- 
Mladen Gogala
Database Consultant
Tel: (347) 321-1217
https://dbwhisperer.wordpress.com

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