Re: Security lessons from liblzma - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Security lessons from liblzma
Date
Msg-id 4e718e2b-17cf-9de3-2d63-2f321179b2b1@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Security lessons from liblzma  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
List pgsql-hackers
On 2024-03-31 Su 17:12, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2024-03-31 12:18:29 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
>> If you ask where they are maintained, the answer is here:
>>
>> https://salsa.debian.org/postgresql/postgresql/-/tree/17/debian/patches?ref_type=heads
>>
>> the other major versions have their own branch.
> Luckily these are all quite small, leaving little space to hide stuff.  I'd
> still like to get rid of at least some of them.
>
> I've previously proposed a patch to make pkglibdir configurable, I think we
> should just go for that.
>
> For the various defines, ISTM we should just make them #ifndef guarded, then
> they could be overridden by defining them at configure time. Some of them,
> like DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR seem to be overridden by just about every
> distro. And others would be nice to easily override anyway, I e.g. dislike the
> default DEFAULT_PAGER value.
>

+1 to this proposal.


cheers


andrew

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