| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Security lessons from liblzma |
| Date: | 2024-04-04 20:47:53 |
| Message-ID: | 1042259.1712263673@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 4:25 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
>> I don't disagree, like I said that very email: it's non-trivial and I wish we
>> could make it better somehow, but I don't hav an abundance of good ideas.
> Is the basic issue that we can't rely on the necessary toolchain to be
> present on every machine where someone might try to build PostgreSQL?
IIUC, it's not really that, but that regenerating these files is
expensive; multiple seconds even on fast machines. Putting that
into tests that are run many times a day is unappetizing.
regards, tom lane
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