Re: Possible make_oidjoins_check Security Issue - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Possible make_oidjoins_check Security Issue
Date
Msg-id 3820.1098283105@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Possible make_oidjoins_check Security Issue  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I suspect that no one on the planet
>> except Bruce and myself have ever actually run this script.

> Then why don't we just remove it? Problem solved ...

Because it's a needed maintenance tool.  There isn't any particularly
good reason for it to get installed as though it were an interesting
program for users, though, so I think that this is mostly a matter of
poor packaging choices.  I am in fact intending to remove the
contrib/findoidjoins files from the set of stuff installed by Red Hat's
RPMs.

I suppose you could make an argument for moving this directory out of
contrib and putting it under src/tools instead, but that seems like more
work (and loss of CVS history) than it's worth.
        regards, tom lane


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