Re: LDAP: bugfix and deprecated OpenLDAP API

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
Cc: Abhijit Menon-Sen *EXTERN* <ams(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: LDAP: bugfix and deprecated OpenLDAP API
Date: 2014-02-01 13:02:20
Message-ID: 52ECF05C.3020206@gmx.net
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On 1/31/14, 6:32 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 01:31:26PM +0000, Albe Laurenz wrote:
>> Bind attempts to an LDAP server should time out after two seconds,
>> allowing additional lines in the service control file to be parsed
>> (which provide a fall back to a secondary LDAP server or default options).
>> The existing code failed to enforce that timeout during TCP connect,
>> resulting in a hang far longer than two seconds if the LDAP server
>> does not respond.
>
> Where are we on this patch?

From my perspective, we need someone who can test this.

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