Re: Better detail logging for password auth failures

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:07 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> We often tell people to look in the postmaster log for more information
> about authentication problems; but an off-list question prompted me to
> notice that many of the common authentication failure cases don't actually
> get any useful commentary in the log. The attached proposed patch
> remedies this by adding specific log detail messages for all the
> non-out-of-memory cases processed by md5_crypt_verify(). Essentially,
> this is just covering cases that I omitted to cover in commit 64e43c59,
> for reasons that no longer seem very good to me.
>
> Any objections?

Not really. +1. And the patch looks good.
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Michael