Re: Zlib vulnerability heads-up.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=)
Cc: Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Zlib vulnerability heads-up.
Date: 2002-03-13 14:50:16
Message-ID: 8492.1016031016@sss.pgh.pa.us
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teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=) writes:
>>> But what _does_ use zlib in PostgreSQL?
>>
>> On a quick search I can only see pg_backup using it.

> I see many more, including the postmaster:

AFAIK the only actual *use* of zlib is in pg_dump/pg_restore.

Pretty much all our executables will be *linked* to it, however.
This is because Autoconf doesn't conveniently support making different
LIBS lists for every executable, and so we just use one one-size-fits-
all list for all of 'em. (Perhaps AC 2.5* will make this better?)

regards, tom lane

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