Tom Lane wrote:
Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
So it appears that pg_md5_encrypt is not officially exported from libpq.
Does anyone see a problem with adding it to the export list and the
header file?
Is it different to normal md5? How is this helpful to the phpPgAdmin
project?
It would be better to export an API that is (a) less random (why one
input null-terminated and the other not?) and (b) less tightly tied
to MD5 --- the fact that the caller knows how long the result must be
is the main problem here.
Something like
char *pg_gen_encrypted_passwd(const char *passwd, const char *user)
with malloc'd result (or NULL on failure) seems more future-proof.
Where are we on this? In general I agree with Tom, but I have no time to
do the work. Unless someone has an immediate implementation, I suggest
that pro tem we add pg_md5_encrypt to src/interfaces/libpq/exports.txt,
which is the minimum needed to unbreak Windows builds, while this gets
sorted out properly.
cheers
andrew
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