From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Possible make_oidjoins_check Security Issue |
Date: | 2004-10-20 15:23:43 |
Message-ID: | 417682FF.8010202@dunslane.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>
>
>>Tom Lane wrote:
>>
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>>>I suspect that no one on the planet
>>>except Bruce and myself have ever actually run this script.
>>>
>>>
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>
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>>Then why don't we just remove it? Problem solved ...
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>
>Because it's a needed maintenance tool. There isn't any particularly
>good reason for it to get installed as though it were an interesting
>program for users, though, so I think that this is mostly a matter of
>poor packaging choices. I am in fact intending to remove the
>contrib/findoidjoins files from the set of stuff installed by Red Hat's
>RPMs.
>
>I suppose you could make an argument for moving this directory out of
>contrib and putting it under src/tools instead, but that seems like more
>work (and loss of CVS history) than it's worth.
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Then maybe there's a case for removing findoidjoins from WANTED_DIRS in
contrib/Makefile? I agree this issue is so trifling that it's not worth
spending much energy on.
On a very slightly related note, I see that ipcclean (which is a shell
script) is installed on Windows by "make install". Do we want to fix
that or trust the binary packagers to remove it?
cheers
andrew
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