Re: Securing "make check" (CVE-2014-0067)

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de> wrote:
> Re: Noah Misch 2014-03-30 <20140330014531(dot)GE170273(at)tornado(dot)leadboat(dot)com>
>> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 10:04:55AM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
>> > Fwiw, to relocate the pg_regress socket dir, there is already the
>> > possibility to run make check EXTRA_REGRESS_OPTS="--host=/tmp". (With
>> > the pending fix I sent yesterday to extend this to contrib/test_decoding.)
>>
>> That doesn't work for "make check", because the postmaster ends up with
>> "listen_addresses=/tmp".
>
> Oh, right. There's this other patch which apparently works so well
> that I already forgot it's there:
>
> Enable pg_regress --host=/path/to/socket:
> https://alioth.debian.org/scm/loggerhead/pkg-postgresql/postgresql-9.4/trunk/view/head:/debian/patches/60-pg_regress_socketdir.patch

Wasn't this patch submitted for inclusion in PostgreSQL at some point?
Did we have some good reason for not accepting it?

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