Re: @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 23:50, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > > I'd like to see something done about this fairly soon, but it's not
> > > happening for 7.3 ...
> >
> > Hang on, you seem to be suggesting we release a major new upgrade, with
> > major new functionality, knowing it contains a way to trivially crash
> > the backend.
> >
> > Err.. hang on.  What happened to our reputation for quality and
> > releasing "when it's ready"?
> >
> > Since when were we Microsoft-ized?
> 
> I personally agree with Justin that it should be fixed for 7.3 (just imagine
> all those people selling colo postgres services).  There should be a 7.2.2
> as well that fixes the date parser problem.

Has anyone actually considered the time required to make the appropriate
fix (clean up use of OPAQUE)?  I don't think this bug is worthy of
pushing the 7.3 release out a few weeks.

The simple fix is to drop the money type entirely as it serves few
purposes -- but there are some who use it.