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Re: Security lessons from liblzma

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-04-04T20:47:53Z
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 4:25 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>> I don't disagree, like I said that very email: it's non-trivial and I wish we
>> could make it better somehow, but I don't hav an abundance of good ideas.

> Is the basic issue that we can't rely on the necessary toolchain to be
> present on every machine where someone might try to build PostgreSQL?

IIUC, it's not really that, but that regenerating these files is
expensive; multiple seconds even on fast machines.  Putting that
into tests that are run many times a day is unappetizing.

			regards, tom lane