Re: BUG #6412: psql & fe-connect truncate passwords

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: agrimm(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #6412: psql & fe-connect truncate passwords
Date: 2012-01-28 18:47:04
Message-ID: 24946.1327776424@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com> writes:
> I don't see it as a bug but a limitation. Why do you need such a long
> password?

Yeah, I think the reason we're not too consistent about this is that
nobody ever imagined that limits of 100 bytes or more would pose an
issue in practice. What's the use-case for passwords longer than
that?

regards, tom lane

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