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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: CVE-2024-10979 Vulnerability Impact on PostgreSQL 11.10
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 21:04:03 -0500
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On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 4:39 PM Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:

>  On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 03:24:47PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 1:10 PM Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> >     I have to admit, for this question, we just point people to:
> >
> >             https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/
> >
> >     and say bounce the database server and install the binaries.  What I
> >     have never considered before, and I should have, is the complexity of
> >     doing this for many remote servers.  Can we improve our guidance for
> >     these cases?
> >
> >
> > What guidance is needed?  Even for us, where firewalls block our servers
> from
> > https://download.postgresql.org, it's as simple as downloading the
> relevant RPM
> > files once (and that done with a PowerShell script), then patching
> thusly:
> >
> > WinScp PG16.4_RHEL8 dir to each server, and on each server
> > $ sudo -iu postgres pg_ctl stop -mfast -wt9999 -D /path/to/data
> > $ sudo yum install PG16.4_RHEL8/*rpm
> > $ sudo -iu postgres pg_ctl start -wt9999 -D /path/to/data
> >
> > Those three sudo commands take, at most, three minutes.
>
> I am thinking more of cases where you have 100+ customers, and you need
> to coordinate/connect to each company to perform the upgrade.  Doing
> that every quarter might be a lot of work, and it might be hard to
> justify for every minor release.
>

Two thoughts:
- PGDG publishes release notes.
- PowerShell + Putty(*) are a darned powerful combo for automating remote
maintenance.

*It's more than just a GUI ssh client.

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