>
> BTW, it occurs to me that the system ought to have provisions for
> limiting the size of the logfile, rotating logfiles from time to
> time, etc ... right now you cannot do those things easily except
> by restarting the postmaster :-(. Even without this bug, a determined
> attacker could create a DOS attack by doing EXPLAIN VERBOSE enough
> times to run the postmaster logfile up to full disk. Bruce, I think
> we need another TODO item:
> * prevent postmaster logfile from growing without bound
Not sure this really is a PostgreSQL issue. Other OS systems have this
problem too.
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