Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:49 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The archiver is deliberately designed not to be connected to shared
>> memory. If you want to change that you'll have to make a very strong
>> case why we should give up the safety and security advantages of it.
> We should let the user decide.
Really? The way we let the user decide whether to run as root or not?
I don't think we make security-related decisions that way.
You haven't actually explained what you want this for, so the entire
discussion is operating in a vacuum ...
regards, tom lane