Re: BUG #6412: psql & fe-connect truncate passwords - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: BUG #6412: psql & fe-connect truncate passwords
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Msg-id 20120827171534.GO11088@momjian.us
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In response to Re: BUG #6412: psql & fe-connect truncate passwords  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 01:47:04PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com> writes:
> > I don't see it as a bug but a limitation. Why do you need such a long
> > password?
>
> Yeah, I think the reason we're not too consistent about this is that
> nobody ever imagined that limits of 100 bytes or more would pose an
> issue in practice.  What's the use-case for passwords longer than
> that?

Thanks for all the feedback.  I know it is a pain for me to re-ask these
questions, but it allows us to know that these issues have gotten
sufficient thought.

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