Re: Doing authentication in backend - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Doing authentication in backend
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0106142231120.2008-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: Doing authentication in backend  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Doing authentication in backend  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane writes:

> Also note that we could easily fix things so that the max-number-of-
> backends limit is not checked until we have passed the authentication
> procedure.  A PM child that's still busy authenticating doesn't have
> to count.

How does the postmaster know?  And if the postmaster does get to know,
what does it do with children it has "accidentally" allowed in excess?

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter



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