Re: [GENERAL] SECURITY RELEASES: 7.2.8 - 7.3.10 - 7.4.8 - 8.0.3

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-announce(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] SECURITY RELEASES: 7.2.8 - 7.3.10 - 7.4.8 - 8.0.3
Date: 2005-05-11 00:39:56
Message-ID: 4281545C.7050603@samurai.com
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Please note that the security issues were those already reported by Tom
> Lane, as well as a manual fix for them. These releases are mainly to
> ensure that those installing and/or upgrading existing installations
> have those fixes automatically.

Note that if you're upgrading within a release series (e.g. 8.0.x to
8.0.3) without a dump and reload, you will _not_ get the necessary
system catalog changes automatically. Tom's earlier mail describes the
procedure needed to correct the system catalog:

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.315

-Neil

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