Re: Position of ClientAuthentication hook

On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 at 21:04, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 8:51 AM Rafia Sabih <rafia(dot)pghackers(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > I have a doubt regarding the positioning of clientAuthentication hook
> > in function ClientAuthentication. Particularly, in case of hba errors,
> > i.e. cases uaReject or uaImplicitReject it errors out, leading to no
> > calls to any functions attached to the authentication hook. Can't we
> > process the hook function first and then error out...?
>
> Maybe. One potential problem is that if the hook errors out, the
> original error would be lost and only the error thrown by the hook
> would be logged or visible to the client. Whether or not that's a
> problem depends, I suppose, on what you're trying to do with the hook.

Thanks Robert for this quick clarification.

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Regards,
Rafia Sabih