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.
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Fujii Masao 2015-07-09 22:30:52 +09:00
parent 23b8928829
commit c2e5f4d1c1
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@ -2303,6 +2303,7 @@ include_dir 'conf.d'
<xref linkend="guc-full-page-writes"> is on or during a base backup.
A compressed page image will be decompressed during WAL replay.
The default value is <literal>off</>.
Only superusers can change this setting.
</para>
<para>

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@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ static struct config_bool ConfigureNamesBool[] =
},
{
{"wal_compression", PGC_USERSET, WAL_SETTINGS,
{"wal_compression", PGC_SUSET, WAL_SETTINGS,
gettext_noop("Compresses full-page writes written in WAL file."),
NULL
},