authtype parameter in libpq

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2021-02-26T20:02:11Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Attachments

0001-Remove-defaults-from-authtype-parameter.patch (application/octet-stream) patch 0001

When looking at disallowing SSL compression I found the parameter "authtype"
which was deprecated in commit d5bbe2aca55bc8 on January 26 1998.  While I do
think there is a case to be made for the backwards compatibility having run its
course on this one, shouldn't we at least remove the environment variable and
default compiled fallback for it to save us a getenv call when filling in the
option defaults?

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Daniel Gustafsson		https://vmware.com/

Commits

libpq: Remove deprecated connection parameters authtype and tty
- 14d9b37607ad 14.0 landed
From: Phil Thompson <phil@river-bank.demon.co.uk>
- d5bbe2aca55b 7.1.1 cited