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

Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org> writes:
> 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.

This particular hole has been in *every* release since Postgres 1.01.

I'm really not interested in responding to any argument that we cannot
release 7.3 until we have fixed everything that could be labeled a DOS
threat.  7.3 already contains a bunch of bug fixes; shall we postpone
releasing those because there are other unfixed bugs?
        regards, tom lane