Re: BUG #13741: vacuumdb does not accept valid password

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, brown(at)fastmail(dot)com, "pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #13741: vacuumdb does not accept valid password
Date: 2015-12-23 16:55:44
Message-ID: 20151223165544.GB58441@alvherre.pgsql
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Tom Lane wrote:

> Sorry for having lost track of this. I think if we're going to do this,
> we should do it now not later, because it essentially reverts the
> connectDatabase() API change made in 83dec5a71 in favor of a different API
> change with the same purpose. Now, that doesn't matter if no third-party
> code is using connectDatabase(), but I have a suspicion that there
> probably is some. Any such users will not thank us for whacking
> connectDatabase's API around in 9.5 and then whacking it around
> differently in 9.6.
>
> In short, I think we should apply this now and back-patch into 9.5,
> like the prior patch, even though we're post-RC1. The reduction in
> cross-version API churn is worth it.
>
> If no objections, I'll go do that shortly.

No objection here.

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