Re: [BUGS] BUG #13741: vacuumdb does not accept valid password - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: [BUGS] BUG #13741: vacuumdb does not accept valid password
Date
Msg-id 20151223165544.GB58441@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: [BUGS] BUG #13741: vacuumdb does not accept valid password  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [BUGS] BUG #13741: vacuumdb does not accept valid password  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

> Sorry for having lost track of this.  I think if we're going to do this,
> we should do it now not later, because it essentially reverts the
> connectDatabase() API change made in 83dec5a71 in favor of a different API
> change with the same purpose.  Now, that doesn't matter if no third-party
> code is using connectDatabase(), but I have a suspicion that there
> probably is some.  Any such users will not thank us for whacking
> connectDatabase's API around in 9.5 and then whacking it around
> differently in 9.6.
> 
> In short, I think we should apply this now and back-patch into 9.5,
> like the prior patch, even though we're post-RC1.  The reduction in
> cross-version API churn is worth it.
> 
> If no objections, I'll go do that shortly.

No objection here.

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