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From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: Abraham, Danny <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Asking for OK for a nasty trick to resolve PG CVE-2025-1094 i
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:11:41 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SA1PR02MB969837F0BEDE8CD64AE703958ECA2@SA1PR02MB9698.namprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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On Thu, 2025-03-06 at 07:39 +0000, Abraham, Danny wrote:
> I have many customers using PG 15.3 happily, and I cannot just snap upgrade them all to 15.12.

Why do you think you cannot do that?
In the long run, you'll be sorry if you don't.
It is just a matter of replacing the software and restarting the database server.

> I have tested a nasty trick of replacing PSQL,LIBPQ and several other DLL's so that
> I have a PG client 15.12 within the folders of Server 15.3.
> 
> All working just fine.
> 
> I plan to ship it as a patch - but would like to hear you opinion on this "merge".
> 
> (Of course, the next version will use PG 17.4, so this is just an SOS action).
> 
> Directory of C:\Users\dbauser\Desktop\15.12
> 
> 02/20/2025  11:48 AM         4,696,576 libcrypto-3-x64.dll
> 02/20/2025  11:48 AM         1,850,401 libiconv-2.dll
> 02/20/2025  11:48 AM           475,769 libintl-9.dll
> 02/20/2025  11:48 AM           323,584 libpq.dll
> 02/20/2025  11:48 AM           779,776 libssl-3-x64.dll
> 02/20/2025  11:48 AM            52,736 libwinpthread-1.dll
> 02/20/2025  11:48 AM           604,160 psql.exe
> 
> ==
> C:\Program Files\BMC Software\Control-M Server\pgsql\bin>postgres -V
> postgres (PostgreSQL) 15.3
> 
> C:\Program Files\BMC Software\Control-M Server\pgsql\bin>psql -V
> psql (PostgreSQL) 15.12

There is nothing fundamentally evil about upgrading the client.

But what is the point?  Why are you worried about client bugs more than
about server bugs?  The latter are much more likely to eat your data.

But then, if you are using Windows, perhaps you don't care a lot about
your data...

Yours,
Laurenz Albe






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