On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > More generally, I do not like depending on postmaster environment > variables --- our experience with environment variables for database > locations has been uniformly bad.... > The existing secondary-location mechanism is horrible. Please do not > emulate it...
Right. I get really, really worried about security issues when I see something like "just specify an environment variable." Who knows what the heck else is in the environment. I'd really like to see that removed and replaced with a configuration file or something similar. cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
