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

Lamar Owen wrote:
> 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?
   On a quick search I can only see pg_backup using it.


Jan

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