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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Simon Riggs <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Frost <[email protected]>
Cc: Ferindo Middleton <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] BUG #2052: Federal Agency Tech Hub Refuses to Accept
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:37:16 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I am not excited about referencing error numbers from someone else. 
> We know our errors better than anyone else, so I don't see the point.

The point is, *we* might know our error numbers, but the rest of the 
world doesn't.

And CVE isn't just "someone".  A large number of security groups, 
government agencies, and OS distributors are involved there.  Using CVE 
numbers, the public can, say, correlate bugtraq or CERT announcements 
or Red Hat or Debian bugs to PostgreSQL patches and releases.  
Copy-and-pasting the CVE number into the patch message or release note 
entry really isn't that much to ask for that service.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/



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