On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 14:54 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> You will certainly be able to log into the standby with a superuser
> account, nobody is preventing that. This is about protecting the
> *master*. For example, from modifications made by a user who hacked
> the standby.
The users for master and standby are identical, so if they have access
to the standby, they have access to the master. That's why we allow
replication to be specifically excluded by the pg_hba.conf.
So I don't see how this helps.
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