Re: PostGres Doubt - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PostGres Doubt
Date
Msg-id 11028.1023903481@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: PostGres Doubt  (David Ford <david+cert@blue-labs.org>)
Responses Re: PostGres Doubt  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>)
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David Ford <david+cert@blue-labs.org> writes:
> So reentrancy in libpq basically is put on hold until 7.3.

Only if you insist on using "crypt", which is deprecated anyway.
md5 is the preferred encryption method.

My feeling about the proposed patch was that crypt is now a legacy auth
method, and it's not clear that we should create platform/library
dependencies just to support making multiple connections simultaneously
under crypt auth.  (Note that *using* connections concurrently is not
at issue, only whether you can execute the authentication phase of
startup concurrently.)
        regards, tom lane


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