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Re: ProcessStartupPacket(): database_name and user_name truncation

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Cc: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-06-30T15:54:12Z
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Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
> After taking another look at this, I wonder if it'd be better to fail as
> soon as we see the database or user name is too long instead of lugging
> them around when authentication is destined to fail.

If we're agreed that we aren't going to truncate these identifiers,
that seems like a reasonable way to handle it.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Don't truncate database and user names in startup packets.