Re: IMPORTANT: Out-of-cycle release scheduled for November 21, 2024

On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 07:40:36PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 7:18 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> so when we decided to remove the downloads
>
>
> Can you elaborate on who "we" is here?
>
> I don't recall this event happening.

Uh, I only see 17.0 available for Windows, MacOS, and all EDB downloads,
not 17.1:

https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads

I am not sure if other distributions removed 17.1.

> I suppose "encouraging people to wait" is arguably a bad position to take
> compared to directing them to a page on our wiki where the risk factors are
> laid out so they can make an informed decision based upon their situation.  But
> that seems like a person-to-person matter and not something the project can
> take responsibility for or control.  So, "immediately create a wiki page when
> PR-level problems arise" could be added to the "could have done better" list,
> so people have a URL to send instead of off-the-cuff advice.

Interesting.

> Obviously "alter role set role" is a quite common usage in our community yet we
> lack any regression or tap tests exercising it.  That we could have done better
> and caught the bug in the CVE fix.

Yes, I saw a lot of reports about this failure.

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