Re: [GENERAL] [Slony1-general] Any big slony and WAL shipping users?

From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck.ca>
Date: Fri Dec 28 2007 - 09:48:12 EST

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 11:21:53AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> This only helps against crasher bugs. For code injection, it's
> devastating if the attacker can compromise one node, and by
> diversifying, he or she can choose which code base to attack.

Well, it also helps in your robustness plan: if you find out about an exploit before you've been exploited, you can turn off the exploitable systems and still not lose service. But otherwise, yes, what you say is true. Real 100% uptime is hard, no matter how you go at it.

A

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TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend Received on Fri Dec 28 09:49:35 2007