Re: Proposed changes to security.html

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposed changes to security.html
Date: 2013-03-03 20:06:37
Message-ID: 5133AD4D.3050407@agliodbs.com
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> That might be worthwhile consideration for introductory or marketing
> material, say, but for the purpose of tracking security issues,
> "contrib" is perfectly clear: If you are installing from source, it is
> code that lives under contrib/. If you are installing from binary, it
> is code that is in the postgresql-contrib package (usually). Calling it
> anything other than "contrib" cannot possibly make that more clear.

Yeah, I suppose the security page is not the place to address this. We
have a larger project problem in using three different bits of
terminology for mostly the same set of software. We can fix the
security page once we fix the terminology in general.

--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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