On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:Is the uptime kept internally anywhere? Or even the start time?
No, and no (at least not in any globally accessible variable).
If it is, it would be quite trivial to provide access to it
Not really --- in the EXEC_BACKEND case, we'd have to do something explicit to pass the value down to backends.
Couldn't it be stored in shared memory?
I'd like to see more than one person requesting this (and with solider rationales) before it gets added to TODO. If I wanted to be picky I would suggest that knowledge of the server start time might be useful information to an attacker. It would for instance narrow down the number of possible starting seeds for the postmaster's random number generator.
Wouldn't an attacker have to have access to the server in the first place to get that information?
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