On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> Magnus,
>
> * Magnus Hagander (magnus@hagander.net) wrote:
>> I have no idea what platform that would be. Both the standard
>> implementations of krb5 have supported gssapi since forever. The only
>> nonstandard environment we support there is Windows, and that one *only*
>> has support for GSSAPI/SSPI.
>
> There are some older unixes that had their own Kerberos libraries,
> that's what I was specifically referring to. I agree that there's
> really only 2 implementations among the major free/open source
> distributions and that those have supported GSSAPI for a long time.
>
>> Well, we can remove it and see if it breaks :)
>
> That was more-or-less what I was encouraging.. :D
>
> The only question there is if we're even building w/ krb5 and/or
> gssapi support on the buildfarm by default today..?
Well, looking at the BF:
http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl
...it seems there are LOTS of machines building with krb5, and NONE with gssapi.
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