Re: @(#)Mordred Labs advisory 0x0003: Buffer overflow in

Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>

To: Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>

Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2002-08-21T18:05:07Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 21 Aug 2002, Rod Taylor wrote:

> Agreed.  If patches are applied to the 7.4 branch as fast as normal,
> then maybe 7.4 will only be 6 months out with well tested Windows, PIT,
> etc. code that gets applied this October.
>
> Whats the intended branchpoint?  Beta with less than 5 patches?  3rd
> beta start period?  Less than 100 lines changed between betas?

Actually, I believe the agreement on branchpoint for this release was
release date ... with the normal having been a few weeks *after* release
in previous releases ...