Merlin: On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Francisco Olarte > <folarte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> And I'd like to point libpq sessions does not sound to be the best >> kind of traffic across a firewall, not a good service / protocol to >> expose. > meh -- it's perfectly fine to expose postgres to the internet as long > as you've handled the security concerns. It is, but handling them is not easy, and you have to deal with things like DoS which are not trivial on the server ( as it is a heavy service ). It can be done, and sometimes needs to be done, but is not a thing to take over lightly. > This could be over ssh tunnel for example. In which case it is NOT exposed to the internet. What are you trying to say? Francisco Olarte. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
