Re: SSPI authentication

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: PGSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SSPI authentication
Date: 2007-07-17 08:03:11
Message-ID: 469C77BF.6050103@postgresql.org
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> So what we'd need in that case is a new libpq connectionstring
> parameter. Which can be done, but it'd require that all frontends that
> use libpq add support for it - such as pgadmin. I'm not sure if the ODBC
> driver will support arbitrary arguments, otherwise that one needs it too.
>
> As I'm sure you can tell, I'm far from convinced this is a good idea ;-)
> Anybody else want to comment on this?

The ODBC driver would need modification (as would pgAdmin of course).
Whats more of a concern is that we already have ODBC connection strings
that can be too long - adding yet another option will make that worse of
course.

Regards, Dave

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