Re: Zlib vulnerability heads-up. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Lamar Owen
Subject Re: Zlib vulnerability heads-up.
Date
Msg-id 200203121645.LAA03908@www.wgcr.org
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In response to Re: Zlib vulnerability heads-up.  (Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: Zlib vulnerability heads-up.  (Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>)
Re: Zlib vulnerability heads-up.  (Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>)
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On Tuesday 12 March 2002 11:34 am, Jan Wieck wrote:
> Lamar Owen wrote:
> [Charset iso-8859-15 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > As PostgreSQL uses the zlib library (for TOAST?), this is a headsup that
> > a bug has been found in the zlib library that could  cause data
> > corruption or a security breach.

>     PostgreSQL  does  not  use  the  zlib  library for toast. The
>     algorithm used in toast is based on Adisak Pochanayon's  SLZ.

Good.  I think.

But what _does_ use zlib in PostgreSQL?
-- 
Lamar Owen
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