On 2013-12-04 20:55:08 -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 12:11 +0530, Amit Kapila wrote: > > If an application wants to allow these connection parameters to be > > used, it would need to do PQenableStartServer() first. If it doesn't, > > those connection parameters will be rejected. > > Stupid idea: Would it work that we require an environment variable to be > set before we allow the standalone_backend connection parameter? That's > easy to do, easy to audit, and doesn't require any extra code in the > individual clients.
I still don't think it's ok to start forking in arbitrary applications without their knowledge. So I don't think that buys us enough. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
