Re: Re: Debian's PostgreSQL packages

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: "J(dot)H(dot)M(dot) Dassen (Ray)" <jdassen(at)cistron-office(dot)nl>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: Debian's PostgreSQL packages
Date: 2001-06-29 16:14:49
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0106291807410.867-100000@peter.localdomain
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Oliver Elphick writes:

> "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote:
> >> and it was never submitted to us a a patch.
> >
> >According to the README it was. Oliver, could you comment on this please?
>
> It was, a couple of months back. Peter made some criticism of its use of
> autoconf, which I have changed. I have not resubmitted the patch because
> the core team seemed to think it was not sufficiently portable. If people
> want to include it in the main release, I will resubmit a revised patch.

The whole authentication process has been rewritten in the meantime, so
you might have some work to do. I think the patch was okay in principle.
It's not any less "portable" than ident when you don't have an ident
server running.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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