On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 02:11:19PM -0400, Andres Freund wrote: > Hi, > > On 2025-04-08 13:02:11 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 06:57:18PM +0200, Wolfgang Walther wrote: > > > Jacob Champion: > > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM Wolfgang Walther > > > > <walt...@technowledgy.de> wrote: > > > > > And that should also not be a problem for distributions - they could > > > > > offer a libpq and a libpq_oauth package, where only one of them can > > > > > be installed at the same time, I guess? * > > > > My outsider understanding is that maintaining this sort of thing > > > > becomes a major headache, because of combinatorics. You don't really > > > > want to ship a libpq and libpq-with-gss and libpq-with-oauth and > > > > libpq-with-oauth-and-gss and ... > > > > > > That would only be the case, if you were to consider those other > > > dependencies as "dangerous" as cURL. But we already depend on them. So if > > > it's really the case that cURL is that much worse, that we consider > > > loading > > > it as a module... then the combinatorics should not be a problem either. > > > > > > However, if the other deps are considered problematic as well, then the > > > ship > > > has already sailed, and there is not point for a special case here > > > anymore. > > > > Yes, I think this is what I am asking too. For me it was curl's > > security reputation and whether that would taint the security reputation > > of libpq. For Tom, I think it was the dependency additions. > > I'd say that curl's security reputation is higher than most of our other > dependencies. We have dependencies for libraries with regular security issues, > with those issues at times not getting addressed for prolonged amounts of > time.
I see curl CVEs regularly as part of Debian minor updates, which is why I had concerns, but if it is similar to OpenSSL, and better than other libraries that don't even get CVEs, I guess it okay. However, is this true for libpq libraries or database server libraries. Does it matter? -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Do not let urgent matters crowd out time for investment in the future.
