Re: Postgres upgrade, security release, where?

On 02/04/13 21:47, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> On 02/04/13 21:34, Dave Page wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Mark Kirkwood
>> <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
>>> On 02/04/13 13:55, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr  2, 2013 at 09:40:07AM +0900, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Due to the security nature of the release, the source and binaries
>>>>>> will
>>>>>> only be publicly available on April 4 --- there are no pre-release
>>>>>> versions available.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The PostgreSQL homepage has a big announcement saying
>>>>> "PostgreSQL minor versions released!", including a mention of a
>>>>> "security issue";
>>>>> unfortunately it's not obvious that this is for the prior 9.2.3
>>>>> release
>>>>> and as
>>>>> the announcement of the upcoming security release
>>>>> ( http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1454/ ) does not mention the
>>>>> new release number, methinks there is plenty of room for confusion :(
>>>>>
>>>>> It might be an idea to update the "splash box" with details of the
>>>>> upcoming
>>>>> release.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I agree updating the "spash box" would make sense.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Or perhaps include a date on said splashes, so we know when to panic :-)
>>
>> I've added the date to the splash. You can cease panicing now :-)
>>
>
> ...wipes forehead...
>

Nice - but at the risk of seeming ungrateful, it would be good to know
what timezone said date referred to...in case people were waiting on an
important announcement or something... :-)