On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:32:48PM -0500, Josh Berkus wrote: > MauMau, > > > Could you give me your frank opinions about which of 8.4 or 9.0 > > you recommend to ISVs who embed PostgreSQL?
> As an ISV, though, you need to devise a plan whereby you can apply > update releases to your client's machines if they are connected to > the internet. You need such a plan whether the clients' machines are connected to the internet or not because access control[1] is not the only place where your system may turn out to have bugs. The only case where you will not need such a plan is for a disposable system, i.e. where the decision tree for "there's a bug" has one branch, which is "replace the system." Cheers, David. [1] Please try hard not to confuse access control with security. Access control has been, is, and will continue to be used by attackers to damage systems from ones as small as chat rooms all the way up to governments and economies. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
