Re: Security lessons from liblzma

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Michael Banck <mbanck(at)gmx(dot)net>, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Security lessons from liblzma
Date: 2024-04-01 22:06:49
Message-ID: 4e718e2b-17cf-9de3-2d63-2f321179b2b1@dunslane.net
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On 2024-03-31 Su 17:12, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2024-03-31 12:18:29 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
>> If you ask where they are maintained, the answer is here:
>>
>> https://salsa.debian.org/postgresql/postgresql/-/tree/17/debian/patches?ref_type=heads
>>
>> the other major versions have their own branch.
> Luckily these are all quite small, leaving little space to hide stuff. I'd
> still like to get rid of at least some of them.
>
> I've previously proposed a patch to make pkglibdir configurable, I think we
> should just go for that.
>
> For the various defines, ISTM we should just make them #ifndef guarded, then
> they could be overridden by defining them at configure time. Some of them,
> like DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR seem to be overridden by just about every
> distro. And others would be nice to easily override anyway, I e.g. dislike the
> default DEFAULT_PAGER value.
>

+1 to this proposal.

cheers

andrew

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