Re: Open 7.3 items

Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2002-07-31T17:10:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Neil Conway wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:01:43AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > add in 'fix pg_hba.conf / password issues' to that too :)
>
> I doubt that will make 7.3 -- the proposals I've seen on this topic
> require some reasonably complex additions to the authentication
> system. We also still need to hash out which design we're going
> to implement. Given that it's pretty esoteric, I'd prefer this
> wait for 7.4

Then, the current changes *should* be removed, as we have no idea how many
sites out there we are going to break without that functionality ... I
know I personally have 200+ servers that will all break as soon as I move
to v7.3 with it as is :(