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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Providing catalog view to pg_hba.conf file - Patch submission
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 20:40:18 -0500
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> I understand that there may be objections to that on the basis that it's
> work that's (other than for this case) basically useless,

Got it in one.

I'm also not terribly happy about leaving security-relevant data sitting
around in backend memory 100% of the time.  We have had bugs that exposed
backend memory contents for reading without also granting the ability to
execute arbitrary code, so I think doing this does represent a
quantifiable decrease in the security of pg_hba.conf.

			regards, tom lane


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