From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | agrimm(at)gmail(dot)com, 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: | 2012-08-27 17:15:34 |
Message-ID: | 20120827171534.GO11088@momjian.us |
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On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 01:47:04PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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?
Thanks for all the feedback. I know it is a pain for me to re-ask these
questions, but it allows us to know that these issues have gotten
sufficient thought.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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