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Re: Naming of gss_accept_deleg

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2023-05-19T13:42:00Z
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Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> writes:
> I would also prefer a GUC named gss_accept_delegation, but the current
> name matches the libpq gssdeleg connection parameter and the PGSSDELEG
> environment variable. Maybe there's something to be said for keeping
> those three things alike?

+1 for spelling it out in all user-visible names.  I do not think
that that GSS-API C symbol is a good precedent to follow.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Spell the values of libpq's gssdelegation parameter as "0" and "1".

  2. Expand some more uses of "deleg" to "delegation" or "delegated".

  3. Fix remaining references to gss_accept_deleg.

  4. rename "gss_accept_deleg" to "gss_accept_delegation".