Re: Switching to Homebrew as recommended Mac install?

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-04-03T23:48:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 4/3/12 5:22 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>> If homebrew intentionally creates a hole like that, then for as long
>> as I'm one of the PostgreSQL webmasters it will *never* be listed on
>> our download pages.

I don't agree. Listed with a warning, sure.  But it should be listed.

Consider that OSX is pretty much purely a desktop platform (if you're
using OSX on the server, security is the least of your problems).  As
such, it doesn't have the same security concerns which server platforms
have.

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Josh Berkus
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