Re: [HACKERS] set search_path failure

2002-08-19 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Try 'public','s1' perhaps... Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tatsuo Ishii Sent: Monday, 19 August 2002 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [HACKERS] set search_path failure I'm seeing this: test=# create schema s1;

Re: [HACKERS] set search_path failure

2002-08-19 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
Try 'public','s1' perhaps... Wao, this is confusing:-) The man page says: SET variable { TO | = } { value | 'value' | DEFAULT } And: test=# show search_path; search_path - public, s1 (1 row) So user naturally thinks set search_path to 'public,s1'; is a correct

Re: [HACKERS] Function result cacheing - any comments?

2002-08-19 Thread Gavin Sherry
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Joe Conway wrote: Philip Warner wrote: So the obvious question is - in the opinion of people who know the code, can a function-result-cache be implemented with a lifetime of a single statement, without butchering the function manager? I don't know if I fully

Re: [HACKERS] Function result cacheing - any comments?

2002-08-19 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
What Philip seems to be asking for is a mechanism where by if a function is marked as being mathematically deterministic (given a particular set of parameters the same result is always returned -- eg: cos(), sin(), etc) then the result is cached and next time the function is called with the

Re: [HACKERS] Function result cacheing - any comments?

2002-08-19 Thread Philip Warner
At 17:03 19/08/2002 +1000, Gavin Sherry wrote: What Philip seems to be asking for is a mechanism where by if a function is marked as being mathematically deterministic (given a particular set of parameters the same result is always returned -- eg: cos(), sin(), etc) then the result is cached and

Re: [HACKERS] Function result cacheing - any comments?

2002-08-19 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
What Philip seems to be asking for is a mechanism where by if a function is marked as being mathematically deterministic (given a particular set of parameters the same result is always returned -- eg: cos(), sin(), etc) then the result is cached and next time the function is called with the

Re: [HACKERS] Function result cacheing - any comments?

2002-08-19 Thread Philip Warner
At 15:41 19/08/2002 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: So it seems Philip already has what he wants? I really hope so, but my understanding is that this information is used during optimization, not execution; I want it to be used in execution.

Re: [HACKERS] Open 7.3 items

2002-08-19 Thread Lee Kindness
I'd have thought that if a matching user couldn't be found in the specified database then it would default to searching through the global users? Would be more intuitive... Lee. Bruce Momjian writes: Sample run: $ psql -U postgres test psql: FATAL: user postgres@test does not

[HACKERS] Page type

2002-08-19 Thread Manfred Koizar
Having contributed to the need for pg_dump/initdb/restore when upgrading from 7.2 to 7.3, I plan to submit a patch which *could* make future transitions easier. bufpage.h: typedef struct PageHeaderData { ... uint32 pd_type;/* kind and version */ ... } #define

Re: [HACKERS] Inheritance

2002-08-19 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
Seems with above you are not able to constrain what qualifies for a supertable row, you would only be able to specify constraints that apply to all it's subtables. Yes, that's the whole point. If I have a constraint on a table, I think it should *never* be possible for that constraint

Re: [HACKERS] Function result cacheing - any comments?

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My theory is that if such a piece of code gets a performance gain, then the code is probably worth including, assuming that the function manager does not need to be butchered to achieve the desired goal. Does that sound reasonable? Some real results

Re: [HACKERS] set search_path failure

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The man page says: SET variable { TO | = } { value | 'value' | DEFAULT } So user naturally thinks set search_path to 'public,s1'; is a correct syntax, no? The man page needs improvement --- some variables accept a list of values now. In

Re: [HACKERS] Inheritance

2002-08-19 Thread Curt Sampson
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote: Yes, that's the whole point. If I have a constraint on a table, I think it should *never* be possible for that constraint to be violated. If a subtable should not have constraint the supertable has, it shouldn't inherit from the

Re: [HACKERS] Page type

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Manfred Koizar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having contributed to the need for pg_dump/initdb/restore when upgrading from 7.2 to 7.3, I plan to submit a patch which *could* make future transitions easier. We do need a page version code but I do not want to waste 4 bytes per page on it. I was

Re: [HACKERS] Inheritance

2002-08-19 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
Yes, that's the whole point. If I have a constraint on a table, I think it should *never* be possible for that constraint to be violated. If a subtable should not have constraint the supertable has, it shouldn't inherit from the supertable. If you want that, you simply need to

Re: [HACKERS] Function result cacheing - any comments?

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 15:41 19/08/2002 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: So it seems Philip already has what he wants? I really hope so, but my understanding is that this information is used during optimization, not execution; I want it to be used in execution.

Re: [HACKERS] Inheritance

2002-08-19 Thread Curt Sampson
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote: So what you're saying is that constraints shouldn't be inherited? No. I even said that inheriting should be the default. Ah. So you think it should be possible not to inherit constraints. A local constraint should be made obvious from

Re: [HACKERS] Inheritance

2002-08-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 15:42, Curt Sampson wrote: A local constraint should be made obvious from looking at the schema, Ok, this now I could live with. Though I'm not sure that its theoretically very defensible, or worth the effort. Other languages that offer constraints, such as Eiffel

Re: [HACKERS] Inheritance

2002-08-19 Thread Greg Copeland
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 09:42, Curt Sampson wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote: So what you're saying is that constraints shouldn't be inherited? No. I even said that inheriting should be the default. Ah. So you think it should be possible not to inherit

[HACKERS] Uninstall in contrib/

2002-08-19 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Hi Guys, It would be really neat if the contrib makefile could run an sql script upon uninstall as well as removing the files. Is that a neat idea? Means it can get rid off all the functions, types, etc. automatically. Unfortunately it's a bit beyond my meagre Makefile abilities... Chris

Re: [HACKERS] Remove implicit unique index creation on SERIAL

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Since there didn't seem to be anyone objecting to the notion of decoupling UNIQUE from SERIAL, I'm going to go ahead with reviewing/applying Rod's recent patch that does that (and fixes pg_dump to dump 7.3 serials correctly). We can continue to debate about the merits of making additional

Re: [HACKERS] Uninstall in contrib/

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would be really neat if the contrib makefile could run an sql script upon uninstall as well as removing the files. Is that a neat idea? Means it can get rid off all the functions, types, etc. automatically. Automatically? How will it

Re: [HACKERS] Uninstall in contrib/

2002-08-19 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Automatically? How will it determine which database(s) contain the types? What if the databases require password access? It probably would be useful to supply an uninstall SQL script to reverse the effects of the install script, but since we have no idea where the install was run I think

[HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in PostgreSQL(fwd)

2002-08-19 Thread Vince Vielhaber
Surprised it took this long. Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSHemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pop4.net 56K Nationwide Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking http://www.camping-usa.com

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Vince, Glad he made the advisory for something there's a fix for. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Vince Vielhaber wrote: Surprised it took this long. Vince. -- == Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSHemail:

Re: [HACKERS] [SECURITY] DoS attack on backend possible

2002-08-19 Thread Florian Weimer
Alvar Freude [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about checking the input for backslash, quote, and double quote (\')? If you are not taking care of those in input then crashing the backend is going to be the least of your worries. with Perl and *using placeholders and bind values*, the

Re: [HACKERS] [SECURITY] DoS attack on backend possible

2002-08-19 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Florian, You guys *definitely* write scarey code. :-( Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Florian Weimer wrote: Alvar Freude [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about checking the input for backslash, quote, and double quote (\')? If you are not taking care of those in input

Re: [HACKERS] [SECURITY] DoS attack on backend possible

2002-08-19 Thread Florian Weimer
Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You guys *definitely* write scarey code. Yes, indeed. My code has a lot of unnecessary and error-prone input validation checks because I don't trust the PostgreSQL parser. That's scary. You don't trust your database that it processes a simple text

Re: [HACKERS] [SECURITY] DoS attack on backend possible

2002-08-19 Thread Rod Taylor
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 13:14, Florian Weimer wrote: Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You guys *definitely* write scarey code. Yes, indeed. My code has a lot of unnecessary and error-prone input validation checks because I don't trust the PostgreSQL parser. Bah.. Check the datatype

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src backend/tcop/postgres.cbacke

2002-08-19 Thread Thomas Lockhart
OK, with two people now asking to have the patch removed, and with no comment from Thomas, I have removed the patch. This removes XLogDir environment variable, and -X postmaster/postgres/initdb/pg_ctl flag. I have also removed the code that dynamically sized xlogdir. ... Back in town...

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Glad he made the advisory for something there's a fix for. :) The claim that this bug allows execution of arbitrary code is bogus anyway. The overflow at INT_MIN will clobber the stack, yes, but in an absolutely predetermined way; an attacker will have no

Re: [HACKERS] [SECURITY] DoS attack on backend possible

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's the idea. It's the job of the database to guarantee data integrety. Obviously, the PostgreSQL developers disagree. Look: it's an acknowledged bug and it's fixed in current sources. The disagreement is over whether this single bug is sufficient

Re: [HACKERS] [SECURITY] DoS attack on backend possible

2002-08-19 Thread Florian Weimer
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Saying or implying that the developers don't care about data integrity does not enhance your credibility. Sorry, my fault. Indeed, I didn't check carefully whether the people who go a bit too far in downplaying the problem at hand are in fact PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump, pg_dumpall and createdb privilege

2002-08-19 Thread Neil Conway
Thomas Swan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. create a user with createdb privilege. 2. create a database as that user (allowing that user full reign over that particular db) 3. drop the createdb from the user. 4. pg_dumpall the databases to a single file 5. either use pg_restore or psql infile

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump, pg_dumpall and createdb privilege

2002-08-19 Thread Thomas Swan
Neil Conway wrote: Thomas Swan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. create a user with createdb privilege. 2. create a database as that user (allowing that user full reign over that particular db) 3. drop the createdb from the user. 4. pg_dumpall the databases to a single file 5. either

[HACKERS] ignore me

2002-08-19 Thread Andrew J. Kopciuch
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[HACKERS] CREATE CAST WITHOUT FUNCTION should require superuserness?

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
CREATE CAST WITHOUT FUNCTION is capable of creating binary equivalences that will crash the backend when used (eg, between pass-by-value and pass-by-reference datatypes). The existing restriction that you must own one of the datatypes hardly seems like an adequate permissions check ...

Re: [HACKERS] [SECURITY] DoS attack on backend possible

2002-08-19 Thread ngpg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Florian Weimer) wrote Alvar Freude [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about checking the input for backslash, quote, and double quote (\')? If you are not taking care of those in input then crashing the backend is going to be the least of your worries. with Perl and

Re: [HACKERS] Open 7.3 items

2002-08-19 Thread Jeroen T. Vermeulen
On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 11:08:45PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: integrate or move to gborg libpqxx, Pg:DBD It's no longer my CVS home tree... Is there something I can/should do for this? Jeroen ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Justin Clift
Vince, Do you reckon it's worth you responding to Sir Mordred and pointing out that he overstated the vulnerability? :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Tom Lane wrote: Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Glad he made the advisory for something there's a fix for. :) The

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Justin Clift wrote: Vince, Do you reckon it's worth you responding to Sir Mordred and pointing out that he overstated the vulnerability? Not me. Tom (pref) or Marc would be the proper respondent. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Tom Lane wrote:

Re: Removing Libraries (Was: Re: [HACKERS] Open 7.3 issues)

2002-08-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Actually, I think Jeroen T. Vermeulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] should create the project. It is his code, and if he would add me as an admin, that would help. I am CC'ing him. --- Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2002,

Re: [HACKERS] Remove implicit unique index creation on SERIAL columns?

2002-08-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joe Conway wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I agree 100%. If you want an index, unique constraint, or primary key on a SERIAL, I think you should explicitly add it. SERIAL should give me a column that automatically increments -- no more, no less. Hmm, do

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Justin Clift wrote: Vince, Do you reckon it's worth you responding to Sir Mordred and pointing out that he overstated the vulnerability? Not me. Tom (pref) or Marc would be the proper respondent. Has it actually been fixed? Chris

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Justin Clift
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Justin Clift wrote: Vince, Do you reckon it's worth you responding to Sir Mordred and pointing out that he overstated the vulnerability? Not me. Tom (pref) or Marc would be the proper respondent. Has it actually been

Re: [HACKERS] Page type

2002-08-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
I didn't follow the index part completely, but will heap and index pages have the version info in the same offset? Will there be a way to easily identify an index page vs. a heap page. --- Tom Lane wrote: Manfred Koizar

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src backend/tcop/postgres.cbacke

2002-08-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Yes, perhaps a bad precedent. I have very rarely done this. I do have the patch here if anyone wants to use it. My guess is if someone implements it, it will be done only in initdb, and use symlinks, which you and Marc don't like, so we may be best leaving it undone for 7.3 and returning with

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Vince Vielhaber wrote: Surprised it took this long. Yes, me too, and it says the solution is to upgrade to 7.2.1. Nope. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:40:28 + From: Sir Mordred The Traitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: @(#)

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Justin Clift wrote: Hi Vince, Glad he made the advisory for something there's a fix for. :) Oh, I see he jumpe on cash_words() and didn't mention cash_out. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has it actually been fixed? I couldn't reproduce a problem with his example. The buffer size in cash_words is awfully tight though --- it's dimensioned 128 which looks like a round number rather than a carefully calculated one, and the required

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Justin Clift wrote: Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Justin Clift wrote: Vince, Do you reckon it's worth you responding to Sir Mordred and pointing out that he overstated the vulnerability? Not me. Tom (pref) or Marc would be the proper

Re: [HACKERS] Page type

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't follow the index part completely, but will heap and index pages have the version info in the same offset? Sure, low byte of pd_pagesize. Will there be a way to easily identify an index page vs. a heap page. There already is: heap pages have

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From the info still around, this looks to mean that the cash_words() problem was fixed, but the cash_out() problem was harder to fix. Tom/Bruce, is that correct? The cash_out problem can't really be fixed until we do something about subdividing type

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/src backend/tcop/postgres.cbacke

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Lockhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry to hear that this is the way it turned out. It is a bad precedent imho, and I see no way forward on my interest in this area. Hopefully someone else will pick it up; perhaps one of those so vehemently against the details of this? I said I would

Re: Removing Libraries (Was: Re: [HACKERS] Open 7.3 issues)

2002-08-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Oh, sorry. I will do it now. --- Marc G. Fournier wrote: We're talking about libpq++, not libpqxx :) On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: Actually, I think Jeroen T. Vermeulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] should

Re: [HACKERS] Remove implicit unique index creation on SERIAL columns?

2002-08-19 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: Joe Conway wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I agree 100%. If you want an index, unique constraint, or primary key on a SERIAL, I think you should explicitly add it. SERIAL should give me a column that automatically

Re: Removing Libraries (Was: Re: [HACKERS] Open 7.3 issues)

2002-08-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Done. Called libpq++. --- Bruce Momjian wrote: Oh, sorry. I will do it now. --- Marc G. Fournier wrote: We're talking about libpq++,

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hang on, you seem to be suggesting we release a major new upgrade, with major new functionality, knowing it contains a way to trivially crash the backend. This particular hole has been in *every* release since Postgres 1.01. I'm really not interested in

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: test= select cash_words('-70'); Minus twenty one million four hundred seventy four thousand eight hundred thirty six dollars and forty eight cents It doesn't crash - but it sure is giving the wrong answer ;) Well,

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
I'd like to see something done about this fairly soon, but it's not happening for 7.3 ... Hang on, you seem to be suggesting we release a major new upgrade, with major new functionality, knowing it contains a way to trivially crash the backend. Err.. hang on. What happened to our

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Rod Taylor
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 23:50, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: I'd like to see something done about this fairly soon, but it's not happening for 7.3 ... Hang on, you seem to be suggesting we release a major new upgrade, with major new functionality, knowing it contains a way to trivially

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: This particular hole has been in *every* release since Postgres 1.01. How many releases have we known about this and still done a major release? Several; a quick glance in the archives shows this has been on the TODO list since

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Rod Taylor dijo: The simple fix is to drop the money type entirely as it serves few purposes -- but there are some who use it. There are a lot of other functions that cause the same problem. Just dropping or fixing cash_out is not the solution. -- Alvaro Herrera (alvherre[a]atentus.com)

Re: [HACKERS] XLogDir

2002-08-19 Thread Thomas Lockhart
Revert. The XLogDir change was incomplete and basically useless to start with ... Yea, but it was tied into the PGXLOG commit. Thomas, what are we doing with that? Why ask me? - Thomas ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4:

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Mark Pritchard
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 13:40, Justin Clift wrote: [snip] For example, thinking about something like the various ISP's around who host PostgreSQL databases; how much effort would it take to fix the vulnerabilities that let someone with remote access, but no ability to run a trusted language, take

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Mark, Mark Pritchard wrote: snip I believe its been said before, in this forum no less, that PostgreSQL should focus on its primary role as an RDBMS and not be paranoid about security. I believe it was the thread on SSL connections, and Tom suggested a simple ssh tunnel or vpn. Of

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Neil Conway
Mark Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe its been said before, in this forum no less, that PostgreSQL should focus on its primary role as an RDBMS and not be paranoid about security. I believe it was the thread on SSL connections, and Tom suggested a simple ssh tunnel or vpn. I'd

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
As Tom pointed out, we've already had several releases without getting rid of this OPAQUE DOS bug, and as pointed out he also really doesn't have the patience for fixing it (yet). Was hoping we could get serious bugs fixed sooner rather than later, otherwise I'm afraid of us just adding

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Dann Corbit
-Original Message- From: Neil Conway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:22 PM To: Mark Pritchard Cc: Justin Clift; Tom Lane; Christopher Kings-Lynne; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

[HACKERS] regression test failures in CVS HEAD

2002-08-19 Thread Neil Conway
The 'type_sanity' and 'domain' regression tests seem to fail with CVS HEAD. Here's the diff: *** ./expected/type_sanity.out Sun Aug 4 15:48:11 2002 --- ./results/type_sanity.out Tue Aug 20 01:32:35 2002 *** *** 16,22 SELECT p1.oid, p1.typname FROM pg_type as p1 WHERE

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Neil Conway
Dann Corbit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you *know* of a buffer overrun, and simply decide not to fix it, that sounds very negligent to me. *sigh*, no one is doing that, and it is pure negligence on your part for replying to a thread that you clearly have not read. Cheers, Neil -- Neil

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Dann Corbit
-Original Message- From: Neil Conway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:42 PM To: Dann Corbit Cc: Neil Conway; Mark Pritchard; Justin Clift; Tom Lane; Christopher Kings-Lynne; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001:

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Neil Conway
Dann Corbit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read (in some other message) that this buffer overrun problem has been known for a very, very long time. No, the problem you're referring to (cash_out() and friends) is *not* a buffer overrun. Cheers, Neil -- Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] || PGP Key

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Dann Corbit
-Original Message- From: Neil Conway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:48 PM To: Dann Corbit Cc: Neil Conway; Mark Pritchard; Justin Clift; Tom Lane; Christopher Kings-Lynne; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001:

Re: [HACKERS] @(#) Mordred Labs advisory 0x0001: Buffer overflow in

2002-08-19 Thread Thomas Lockhart
To simply decide not to fix it means: snip What I am saying is that there is nothing that could possibly be more important than fixing this, except some other known problem that could also cause billions of dollars worth of damage. Are there any such problems besides the buffer overrun