From: Jerry Sievert <jerry@legitimatesounding.com>
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Subject: PLV8 yum packages
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:03:49 -0800
To: pgsql-pkg-yum@postgresql.org
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Hi,

I=E2=80=99m the maintainer of PLV8, and I=E2=80=99m wondering what it =
will take to get the postgres yum repositories up to date.

There are a couple of things that you need to know:

1) V8 was affected by Spectre/Meltdown, and the version that has the =
remediation is 6.4.388.40

2) the version of v8 that the official postgres yum repos use is 3.14, =
which is 5 years out of date, and only compiles against the unsupported =
1.4 branch of plv8 (current is 2.3.0)

3) the v8 build system no longer supports shared object creation under =
linux (this is a big one), and thus plv8 has moved to a static build by =
default, leaving a make shared for platforms that can still build (I =
believe they have managed to not break the older build system for macOS, =
but that seems to be it)

So, given all of that, I=E2=80=99m hoping we can work together to get =
plv8 updated on the yum repos.  There have been a huge amount of changes =
over the last 5 years, ranging from major speed increases, updated =
language for es6/es7, and bug fixes (I back port any security issues to =
the 1.4 and 1.5 branches, but the v8 api is no longer compatible).

Please let me know how I can help, it would be great to see plv8 in the =
modern world.

Thanks!


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