Re: Backport of CVE-2024-10978 fix to older pgsql versions (11, 9.6, and 9.4)

On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 03:19:25PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 02:46:37PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > Good question. In a way, if the person who made the change sees your
> > request and can answer it easily, it makes sense to ask. However, I
> > don't know the odds of that happening.
> >
> > I would say ask, but don't take it personally if it your request is
> > ignored. We have fatigue about all the backpatching we have to do so it
> > is hard to get motivated enough to research EOL branches.
> >
> That's helpful feedback.
>
> I definitely didn't take it personally this time and won't in the future
> either.
>
> My thinking was "ask once, bump the thread once after 2 or 3 weeks just
> in case it got lost in the noise (this is a busy list), and after that
> let the matter rest if there is no answer".

We don't normally ignore emails, so would not bother with a second
request.

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