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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Client-side password encryption
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Msg-id 29193.1135004414@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Client-side password encryption  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
Responses Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Client-side password encryption  (Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>)
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> Are there any reasons why we shouldn't change the libname with every
> release like for UNIX? I can't think of any, but you never know...

Surely that cure is far worse than the disease.  You'd be trading a
might-break risk (app using new function will fail if used with old
library) for a guaranteed-to-break risk (*every* app fails if used
with *any* library version other than what it was built against).

The Unix version of the idea is considerably more flexible than
what would happen on Windows.
        regards, tom lane


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