Re: Can we revisit the thought of PostgreSQL 7.2.4?

Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Saturday 25 January 2003 21:06, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Lamar Owen wrote:
> > > On Saturday 25 January 2003 20:36, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > improve the capabilities of the database. For security issues, if we
> > > > already have ten open doors in a house, does it help to lock two of
> > > > them when the other eight are still open?
>
> > > Yes. It depends upon which street the door faces. See the MS SQL Server
> > > Sapphire worm for reference.
>
> > Right. All our open doors are on the inside, so we aren't too bad.
>
> SQL injection exploits for various frontends are also an issue.
>
> I just have an issue with being able to crash the server with an SQL command.
> We'll see how it pans out, I guess.
>
> Red Hat certainly thought it was worth spending some time on; reference their
> back porting of the fixes to versions as old as 6.5.3.

If we can get them all, it is a big win. If we can't, I don't think it
is a win.

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