Re: pam auth - add rhost item

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, kolo hhmow <grzsmp(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pam auth - add rhost item
Date: 2015-10-16 13:56:28
Message-ID: 20151016135628.GB3391@alvherre.pgsql
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Robert Haas wrote:

> I think some more interesting questions are:
> - Did he implement this correctly?
> - Would it break anything?
> - Are there lots of other knobs we should expose too instead of just one?
> - What would it take to turn this into a committable patch?
> - Would the cost of exposing this and perhaps some other knobs cost
> too much in performance for the number of people it would make happy?
> - If so, should the behavior be GUC-controlled or is there
> justification for arguing we should drop the whole patch?

I agree with this set of questions -- the idea behind the patch seemed
quite reasonable to me.

> I feel like we've got somebody new showing up to our community with an
> idea that is not obviously stupid. If we want such people to stick
> around, we should try to give their ideas a fair shake.

+1 to this, too.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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