Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] LDAP auth

2006-03-06 Thread Albe Laurenz
>>>I find it hard to imagine LDAP being sensibly use for any other postgres >>>purpose than authentication, despite recent flights of fancy on the list >>>about storing large slabs of config data there. >> >>It can also make sense to get authorization information from LDAP. > > Yes, that's true.

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] LDAP auth

2006-03-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 15:00:07 -0500, Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I find it hard to imagine LDAP being sensibly use for any other postgres purpose than authentication, despite recent flights of fancy on the list about storing large slabs of config dat

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] LDAP auth

2006-03-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 15:00:07 -0500, Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I find it hard to imagine LDAP being sensibly use for any other postgres > purpose than authentication, despite recent flights of fancy on the list > about storing large slabs of config data there. It can al

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] LDAP auth

2006-03-05 Thread Tom Lane
"Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Was there ever a decision in "the libcurl thread"? No, not yet. Personally I'm unconvinced that we should depend on libcurl: if it's going to use openldap to do LDAP work, then the only good reason to use libcurl rather than openldap directly is if