Re: Patch: use SCM_CREDS authentication over PF_LOCAL sockets - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Patch: use SCM_CREDS authentication over PF_LOCAL sockets
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Msg-id 19428.997811706@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Patch: use SCM_CREDS authentication over PF_LOCAL sockets  (wollman@LCS.MIT.EDU)
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"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> Third, and more directed to Tom ... if applied, would this break the other
> client libraries, or only make it available to those that have been fixed?

Unextended clients should fail with reasonable grace, AFAIK.  I wasn't
objecting to the notion of adding an auth method on those grounds,
merely pointing out that there's more work to be done.

            regards, tom lane

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