Comment 17 for bug 9464

Hi!

Florian Weimer [2004-10-26 19:01 +0200]:
> * Joey Hess:
>
> >> > It should be fixed, just in case someone happens to find it in the
> >> > source package.
> >>
> >> Joey, I think you have rather lost your sense of proportion here.
> >
> > Not really; other linux dsitributions have shipped this script in binary
> > packages, it's obviously not too unlikely that someone would find it and
> > use it.
>
> But any stable update has a potentially destabilizing effect, too, so
> we have to carefully weigh our options. If a stable update is
> scheduled because of the data loss bug, it should also incorporate the
> security fix, but releasing a no-op security fix alone doesn't make
> sense to me.

Just for the records again, we _do_ ship this file in
postgresql-contrib. I prepared an update which is currently in the
approval phase.

I would really like to put other fixes in to stable, too, but I
already asked several times to upload the (very sane) PostgreSQL point
releases, without success.

Martin

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