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

On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 01:47:19PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 1:30 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 03:19:25PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> And yet the squeaky wheel does seem to get the grease; and I know from personal
> experience that emails will go unresponded two for weeks, which to a reasonable
> submitter to this list, when many responses are indeed the same day, seems like
> an email that got overlooked.

Yes, but we are explaining it was not overlooked, but rather no one
knows. The odds of a reply are low, and the odds we just ignored it are
even lower. If he does ask a second time for each backpatch, we are
likely to be even less motivated to help.

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