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Tom Lane 6ef325429c Document risks of "make check" in the regression testing instructions. 
Since the temporary server started by "make check" uses "trust"
authentication, another user on the same machine could connect to it
as database superuser, and then potentially exploit the privileges of
the operating-system user who started the tests.  We should change
the testing procedures to prevent this risk; but discussion is required
about the best way to do that, as well as more testing than is practical
for an undisclosed security problem.  Besides, the same issue probably
affects some user-written test harnesses.  So for the moment, we'll just
warn people against using "make check" when there are untrusted users on
the same machine.

In passing, remove some ancient advice that suggested making the
regression testing subtree world-writable if you'd built as root.
That looks dangerously insecure in modern contexts, and anyway we
should not be encouraging people to build Postgres as root.

Security: CVE-2014-0067
2014-02-17 11:24:32 -05:00
config Allow use of "z" flag in our printf calls, and use it where appropriate. 2014-01-23 17:18:33 -05:00
contrib Prevent potential overruns of fixed-size buffers. 2014-02-17 11:20:21 -05:00
doc Document risks of "make check" in the regression testing instructions. 2014-02-17 11:24:32 -05:00
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README 

PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.