Re: Re: [BUGS] libpq does not manage SSL callbacks properly when other libraries are involved.

Russell Smith wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> >
> >> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>
> >>> This is not something we would typically backpatch because of the danger
> >>> of introducing some unexpected change in libpq. We can provide a patch
> >>> to anyone who needs it, or if the community wants it backpatched I can
> >>> certainly do that.
> >>>
>
> If we start deciding we are not backpatching fixes that we know cause
> crashes, where is the limit?

Stability. That is our limit (goal).

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little
minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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> >> It isn't? It does seem like a bug, which we do typically backpatch ...
> >>
> >
> > Well, it's a risk-reward tradeoff. In this case it seems like there's
> > a nontrivial risk of creating new bugs against fixing a problem that
> > evidently affects very few people. I concur with Bruce's feeling that
> > we shouldn't backpatch ... at least not now. Once the patch has been
> > through beta testing we could reconsider.
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
> I would like to see this backpatched. Even though the PostgreSQL
> community hasn't seen a lot of complaints, there have been a number of
> reports where the bug has caused crashes. Ubuntu launchpad has 6
> duplicates for this bug. php has a bug report for it. So it's not like

Wow, that is interesting.

> people don't know about it. They just didn't know how to fix it. All
> that said, I agree it's safer to wait until the 8.4 beta cycle has given
> this code change a good run before proceeding. In the mean time
> distributions can either backpatch it themselves or wait for PostgreSQL
> community to apply the patch.
>
> For the environment where I have this problem, I think it's still going
> to be a up hill battle to get RedHat to incorporate the fix into RHEL5.
> That's whichever route the community takes with backpatching.

Yea, it is a shame we didn't find/fix this earlier. It is reproducable
so I am surprised we did not hear about it sooner.

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