On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > Gavin Sherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ... The reason I've been thinking about it is some people I've been > > working with at universities have a problem with students effectively > > DoSing shared installations to affect assessment. This was something > > they had control over when they used Oracle :-(. > > And the students have access to the administrative installation exactly > why?
Should have made this clearer. Students had a shared system to prepare assessments. Some students were DoSing Postgres so that other students could not finish assignments. Yes: the students should run their own installations, they should not need to have 100% uptime. But it didn't happen like that. It got me thinking... Gavin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
