Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Client-side password encryption - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Client-side password encryption
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Msg-id 200512220231.jBM2V8A26751@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Client-side password encryption  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:51:46PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > If you add a version number to the Win32 libpq name, you have to update
> > any command-line compile tools that mention libpq after an upgrade.  The
> > Unix linker knows about version numbers, but the Win32 linker doesn't,
> > so adding version numbers does add quite a bit of chaos to the Win32
> > compile world.
> 
> The funny thing about it is that the UNIX linker doesn't know about
> version numbers at all. It just looks for a lib<libname>.so (no
> version) which is symlinked to the actual version to use. Thus just by
> changing a few symlinks you can control which library version is linked
> in. Delete the .so and the linker won't find the library anymore (and
> fall back to the .a lib) though runtime users still will find it
> because they *do* have the version number, which is extracted from the
> library itself.

Yes, important distinction.  Thanks for the clarification.

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