Re: Negotiating the SCRAM channel binding type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Negotiating the SCRAM channel binding type
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Msg-id 87049F17-2D9F-436B-9011-55719136D273@iki.fi
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In response to Re: Negotiating the SCRAM channel binding type  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 5 August 2018 19:01:04 EEST, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
>> Sorry, I see now that there was indeed a test for
>> scram_channel_binding='', which meant "no channel binding". That was
>> confusing, I assumed '' was the default.
>
>Ugh, it isn't?  There's a general principle in libpq that setting a
>parameter to an empty string is the same as leaving it unset.  I think
>violating that pattern is a bad idea.

Yeah. In any case, the whole option is gone now, so we're good.

- Heikki


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