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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: CVE-2024-10979 Vulnerability Impact on PostgreSQL 11.10
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 16:39:07 -0500
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 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.

-- 
  Bruce Momjian  <[email protected]>        https://momjian.us
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  When a patient asks the doctor, "Am I going to die?", he means 
  "Am I going to die soon?"






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