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Make wal_compression PGC_SUSET rather than PGC_USERSET.
authorFujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
Thu, 9 Jul 2015 13:30:52 +0000 (22:30 +0900)
committerFujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>
Thu, 9 Jul 2015 13:30:52 +0000 (22:30 +0900)
commitc2e5f4d1c16faa84a19906706481cf149769f320
treec91df42a1513684acc332a7d37ac8bf7bcfdd3e0
parent23b8928829038ef3fba5a04e4f2707c6034464c4
Make wal_compression PGC_SUSET rather than PGC_USERSET.

When enabling wal_compression, there is a risk to leak data similarly to
the BREACH and CRIME attacks on SSL where the compression ratio of
a full page image gives a hint of what is the existing data of this page.
This vulnerability is quite cumbersome to exploit in practice, but doable.

So this patch makes wal_compression PGC_SUSET in order to prevent
non-superusers from enabling it and exploiting the vulnerability while
DBA thinks the risk very seriously and disables it in postgresql.conf.

Back-patch to 9.5 where wal_compression was introduced.
doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c