Re: Transaction Snapshot Cloning

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 19:23 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> [ blanches... ]  Can you say "security hole"?

> Static on the line, sorry. 
> I'm hearing "useful superuser-only capability". ;-)

It would be far *more* useful if it didn't have to be superuser-only.
And since the actual details of the snapshot content are really of
zero interest to the user, I think making it pass through his hands
is simply misdesign.
        regards, tom lane