On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On 22.02.2011 15:52, Robert Haas wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
>> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes. It would be good to perform those sanity checks anyway.
>>
>> I don't think it's good; I think it's absolutely necessary. Otherwise
>> someone can generate arbitrary garbage, hash it, and feed it to us.
>> No?
>
> No, the hash is stored in shared memory. The hash of the garbage has to
> match.
Oh. Well that's really silly. At that point you might as well just
store the snapshot and an integer identifier in shared memory, right?
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