Re: Fwd: [PATCHES] Preliminary GSSAPI Patches

From: "Henry B(dot) Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCHES] Preliminary GSSAPI Patches
Date: 2007-05-01 01:29:46
Message-ID: 5384A424-05CD-44A8-AE64-F395FA28D972@jpl.nasa.gov
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Yes, the wire protocol is different. Sorry. I can't help that.

As I said, I'm not adding any new functionality yet, just lots of
potential compatibility that isn't possible with the Kerberos API now
used. While there's no significant new functionality yet, at least
there's no regression either.

On Apr 30, 2007, at 5:56 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov> writes:
>> Don't you want to maintain some interoperability between 8.2 client/
>> server and 8.3 server/client at least?
>
> Hm, you mean that what you called a C API change actually
> break^H^H^H^H^Hchanges the on-the-wire protocol as well?
> That sounds not very nice :-(
>
> regards, tom lane

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Henry(dot)B(dot)Hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov, or hbhotz(at)oxy(dot)edu

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