Re: Postgresql packages in Solaris

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:29 PM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:35 PM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> It appears (using the public Sunsolve patchfinder) that the newest
>>> version
>>> of PostgreSQL 8.3 that Sun has a patch for is 8.3.9 (138826-06 or
>>> 138827-06),  while 8.3.11 has been out for about a month now, and fixes
>>> these CVEs.
>>>
>>
>> Note that up to date binaries are provided on the postgresql.org site:
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/
>>
>>
>
> I'm not sure they are a drop-in replacement/update for the Sun-err-Oracle
> packages, however.   For one thing, they didn't provide the SMF service
> manifests last time I looked.

That's a shame. Not as big a shame as Oracle / Sun not being able to
provide timely updates (ahem) but still a shame.