Re: server authentication over Unix-domain sockets

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-06-21T20:48:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On fre, 2010-06-11 at 08:07 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Having the option wouldn't do much unless users know of it and use it
> and it strikes that will very often not be the case.

That situation is the same as with SSL over TCP/IP with certificate
validation.  I don't think we can make either of these the default
without risking breaking a lot of things.