Re: Design Considerations for New Authentication Methods - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Design Considerations for New Authentication Methods
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Msg-id 23913.1162521976@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Design Considerations for New Authentication Methods  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: Design Considerations for New Authentication Methods  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Re: Design Considerations for New Authentication Methods  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> ... Why would we reject a piece of useful functionality based on a 
> published standard?

Well, size and maintainability of the proposed patch are certainly
factors in any such decision.  As a closely related example, I bet
we'd have rejected the original Kerberos-support patch if we'd known
then what we know now.  It's been a constant source of bugs ever since
it went in, and with so few users of the feature, it takes a long time
to find the problems.
        regards, tom lane


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