Re: Postgres Security Patches Question

On 4/24/19 7:30 AM, Patil, Prashant wrote:
> Hi Team,
> 
> We have a question related to security patches.
> 
> Following is our server specification:-
> 
> OS-RedHat 7
> 
> Postgres – 9.3 (planning to upgrade to 11.2) and 11.2
> 
> We have installed postgres using source code and moved postgres data, 
> config and share default install directories to custom directories/mount 
> points. If there is any security patch that need to apply on postgres 
> database in future, 1. Would security patch available in form of source 
> code/zip file OR do we have to apply it using rpm? 2. If rpm, would it 
> be possible to install security patch on postgres custom directories 
> through RPM? 3. Any caveat that we need to aware about?
> 
> Any help here would be really appreciated.

AFAIK the patches are not released separately. In your case you would 
need to download the new patched complete source and rebuild it.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Prashant
> 
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