Re: PostgreSQL - Weak DH group

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Nicolas Guini <nicolasguini(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Damian Quiroga <qdamian(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL - Weak DH group
Date: 2017-07-13 17:04:02
Message-ID: 20170713170402.74uuoivrgd3c6tnw@alvherre.pgsql
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Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> wrote:

> > Objections to committing this now, instead of waiting for v11?
>
> But I am -1 for the sneak part. It is not the time to have a new
> feature in 10, the focus is to stabilize.

But if we were treating it as a security issue, would we backpatch it?
If we do, then it definitely makes sense to put something in pg10. I'm
not sure that this patch is it, though -- perhaps it makes sense to put
a minimal fix in older branches, and let the new feature wait for pg11?

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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