Re: postgres vulnerability

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postgres vulnerability
Date: 2004-10-12 16:46:20
Message-ID: 20041012094057.N54716@megazone.bigpanda.com
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Dave Cramer wrote:

> Actually, I see this differently.
>
> This is a classic example of how postgreSQL is viewed by the rest of the
> world. This argument has been brought up before.
> It is only the core that differentiates the server from the interfaces.
> The rest of the world views this as one product.

Some of the 5 remaining are things like mod_auth_pgsql or the auth module
for courier 0.40 that uses PostgreSQL as a backend. I'm sorry, but I
really don't consider those part of PostgreSQL any more than I consider
any random piece of software that uses Oracle as a backend part of Oracle.

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