On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 07:40:36PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 7:18 PM Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > so when we decided to remove the downloads > > > Can you elaborate on who "we" is here? > > I don't recall this event happening.
Uh, I only see 17.0 available for Windows, MacOS, and all EDB downloads, not 17.1: https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads I am not sure if other distributions removed 17.1. > I suppose "encouraging people to wait" is arguably a bad position to take > compared to directing them to a page on our wiki where the risk factors are > laid out so they can make an informed decision based upon their situation. > But > that seems like a person-to-person matter and not something the project can > take responsibility for or control. So, "immediately create a wiki page when > PR-level problems arise" could be added to the "could have done better" list, > so people have a URL to send instead of off-the-cuff advice. Interesting. > Obviously "alter role set role" is a quite common usage in our community yet > we > lack any regression or tap tests exercising it. That we could have done > better > and caught the bug in the CVE fix. Yes, I saw a lot of reports about this failure. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com When a patient asks the doctor, "Am I going to die?", he means "Am I going to die soon?"