Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes: > However, that doesn't change that some people would like us to support > GSSAPI, and there may be some benefit (additional applications, better > network authentication, etc.) for doing so. If we can get additional > programmers to code the support (i.e. Sun, JPL) I don't see any reason > not to support the *additional* authentication methods.
Well, as I said already, a lot depends on the size of the patch. As a reductio ad absurdum, if they drop 100K lines of code on us, it *will* get rejected, no matter how cool it is. The current Kerberos support seems to require about 50 lines in configure.in and circa 200 lines of C code in each of the backend and libpq. Plus a dependency on an outside library that happens to be readily available and compatibly licensed. What amount of code are we talking about adding here, and what dependencies exactly? What portability and license hazards will be added? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly