X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25F0ED1B56B for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:53:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [64.117.224.130]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27542-02 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:52:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E685AD1B994 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:52:28 -0300 (ADT) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1EEC3D29; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:52:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: Tom Lane Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:54:01 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] What goes into the security doc? Cc: Peter Eisentraut , PostgreSQL-documentation Message-ID: <3F55F279.28486.43EEB095@localhost> References: <200308301747.h7UHlJU18908@candle.pha.pa.us> In-reply-to: <2160.1062280259@sss.pgh.pa.us> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200309/5 X-Sequence-Number: 1961 On 30 Aug 2003 at 17:50, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > I don't think we "decided" to add it, but no one has objected to the > > idea, except Peter recently. Does it make sense to have a security > > overview section in the documentation? > > I think it does. > > As I think Peter is trying to point out, you could almost get the same > result just by having a fat index entry under "security", but I think > people are more likely to notice a chapter or section in the Admin Guide > with such a title. Also, once we have such a chapter, we might find it > reads more naturally to move some of the existing discussions into it, > leaving only a cross-reference where the material is now. So do we want this work or not? -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/