Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tommy Gildseth wrote: >> I'm not quite sure I fully understand the consequence of this change. >> Does it basically mean that it's not possible to use .pgpass with dblink >> for authentication?
> It only applies to 8.4 (which is not yet released) and beyond. > dblink will still work as before for superusers. The visible, documented behavior actually is not any different from what it's been in recent PG releases. This change only plugs a possible security issue that we weren't aware of before, ie, that dblink might send a password to a server before failing the connect attempt. It will fail the connect attempt either way, though, so no functionality changes. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers