Re: pgsql: Add an officially exported libpq function to encrypt passwords,

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Add an officially exported libpq function to encrypt passwords,
Date: 2005-12-23 15:59:16
Message-ID: 20134.1135353556@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Am Freitag, 23. Dezember 2005 02:16 schrieb Tom Lane:
>> Add an officially exported libpq function to encrypt passwords, and
>> modify the previous \password patch to use it instead of depending
>> on a not-officially-exported function. Per discussion.

> I was working on a more-or-less identical patch (but didn't find an Internet
> connection on the train until just now) but called the function
> PQencryptPassword, which seems to be more in line with the other function
> names. (We tend to use lower_case_names for internal functions.) What is
> the strategy there?

I have no objection to that name if you want to change it.

regards, tom lane

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