Re: Thoughts on maintaining 7.3

Joshua D. Drake wrote:

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> For most things probably not that possible. For things like:
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> Simple feature enhancements (preloading of libs)

How long is a piece of string? When does something stop being simple?

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> Fixing pl/Language bugs (and making sure they still work on 7.3)
> Buffer overflow fixes

Everyone seems to agree that bugs should be fixed.

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> Security problems (the fact that alter user/createuser with encrypted
> password ' will go into a .psqlhistory file is horrendous)

you can avoid this in the create case by using createuser -P instead of
psql. Or by using psql -c (although that might put stuff in your shell
history ;-)
Maybe there's a good case for an alteruser counterpart to createuser.

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> pg_dump/pg_restore enhancements
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Which ones? If it is things known to be broken being fixed that comes
under the bug fix category.

cheers

andrew