Re: why was libpq.so's version number bumped?

"Neil Conway" <neilc@samurai.com> writes:

> Christopher Kings-Lynne said:
>> There have been HEAPS of security fixes between 7.2 and 7.3.
>
> That's only the case if your definition of a "security fix" is pretty fast
> and loose -- as yours seems to be.

Hmm?  On 7.2, an unpriviliged database user can read the more or less
the whole memory image of the server process.  On 7.3, this has been
fixed.

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