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Re: Protocol problem with GSSAPI encryption?

Jakob Egger <jakob@eggerapps.at> — 2019-12-06T14:35:38Z

> On 4. Dec 2019, at 06:24, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> * Andrew Gierth (andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk) wrote:
>>>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> 
>>>> It seems to me that this is a bug in ProcessStartupPacket, which
>>>> should accept both GSS or SSL negotiation requests on a connection
>>>> (in either order). Maybe secure_done should be two flags rather than
>>>> one?
>> 
>> Peter> I have also seen reports of that. I think your analysis is
>> Peter> correct.
>> 
>> I figure something along these lines for the fix. Anyone in a position
>> to test this?
> 
> At least at first blush, I tend to agree with your analysis and patch.

I agree with the patch, but this also needs to be fixed on the client side.
Otherwise libpq won't be able to connect to older servers.

I'm attaching a proposed second patch to detect the error on the client side and reconnect to this message.

This patch was first submitted as a separate thread here:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/F27EEE9D-D04A-4B6B-B1F1-96EA4DD996D0@eggerapps.at


Jakob