"Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com> writes:
> On 9/3/20, 2:14 PM, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> If you insist, I'll change it, but it seems even less likely to ever
>> matter to anybody than the changes to make simple_prompt accept
>> indefinitely long passwords. (Perhaps a reasonable compromise
>> is to extend this comment to note that we're also not bothering
>> to support indefinitely long passwords.)
> I don't feel strongly about this. A comment in the code seems
> reasonable.
Alvaro proposes nearby that we ought to have a src/common/ function
to slurp an indefinitely long line from a file [1]. If we do that,
it'd be entirely reasonable to make this code use that. So maybe
the right comment is "XXX FIXME later".
regards, tom lane
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20200903200842.GA11952%40alvherre.pgsql