Re: Increase psql's password buffer size - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 02:42:07PM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> I have no strong opinion about the maximum length of password,
> for now. But IMO it's worth committing that 0001 patch as the first step
> for this problem.
> 
> Also IMO the more problematic thing is that psql silently truncates
> the password specified in the prompt into 99B if its length is
> more than 99B. I think that psql should emit a warning in this case
> so that users can notice that.

I think we should be using a macro to define the maximum length, rather
than have 100 used in various places.

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