Re: Transaction Snapshot Cloning

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 19:23 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > For (2) there's a very simple way of transferring the data between
> > sessions: 
> > a) we connect on session 1 as a serializable transaction
> > b) we ask session 1 for its snapshot
> > c) we then connect on session 2 as a serializable transaction
> > d) we then execute "select replace_serializable_snapshot(...)"
> 
> [ blanches... ]  Can you say "security hole"?

Static on the line, sorry. 

I'm hearing "useful superuser-only capability". ;-)

--  Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com