Re: SECURITY RELEASES: 7.2.8 - 7.3.10 - 7.4.8 - 8.0.3

Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> Also, note that that message was the zero-day-security-problem response
>> to the issue, and that we since figured out cleaner responses. If you
>> haven't yet implemented this in your own DBs, I would suggest following
>> the procedures given in the final release notes, eg
>> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/release-7-4-8.html

> If we've already done the zero-day fix, is there any value in re-doing
> it the "cleaner" way?

Only if you care about allowing unprivileged users to create conversions
(which seems a bit useless to me, but it's in the regression tests...)

regards, tom lane