Re: Hardening PostgreSQL via (optional) ban on local file system access - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Hannu Krosing
Subject Re: Hardening PostgreSQL via (optional) ban on local file system access
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In response to Re: Hardening PostgreSQL via (optional) ban on local file system access  (Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im>)
Responses Re: Hardening PostgreSQL via (optional) ban on local file system access  (Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im>)
Re: Hardening PostgreSQL via (optional) ban on local file system access  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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My understanding was that unless activated by admin these changes
would change nothing.

And they would be (borderline :) ) security fixes

And the versioning policy link actually does not say anything about
not adding features to older versions (I know this is the policy, just
pointing out the info in not on that page).

On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 1:46 AM Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 4:13 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > On 2022-06-25 00:08:13 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
> > > 3) should this be back-patched (we can provide batches for all
> > > supported PgSQL versions)
> >
> > Err, what?
>
> Translation: Backpatching these changes to any stable versions will
> not be acceptable (per the project versioning policy [1]), since these
> changes would be considered new feature. These changes can break
> installations, if released in a minor version.
>
> [1]: https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/
>
> Best regards,
> Gurjeet
> http://Gurje.et



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