Re: Naming of gss_accept_deleg

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)toroid(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Naming of gss_accept_deleg
Date: 2023-05-19 13:44:36
Message-ID: ZGd9RBmbg68OCymS@momjian.us
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On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 09:42:00AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)toroid(dot)org> writes:
> > I would also prefer a GUC named gss_accept_delegation, but the current
> > name matches the libpq gssdeleg connection parameter and the PGSSDELEG
> > environment variable. Maybe there's something to be said for keeping
> > those three things alike?
>
> +1 for spelling it out in all user-visible names. I do not think
> that that GSS-API C symbol is a good precedent to follow.

Once nice bonus of the release notes is that it allows us to see the new
API in one place to check for consistency.

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