Re: Big 7.1 open items

Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>

From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2000-06-13T14:54:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> writes:
> >> encrypt pg_shadow passwords
> 
> > This will be for 7.1?  For some reason I thought it was being pushed 
> > off to 7.2.
> 
> I don't know of anything that would force delaying it --- it's not
> dependent on querytree redesign, for example.  The real question is,
> do we have anyone who's committed to do the work?  I heard a lot of
> discussion but I didn't hear anyone taking responsibility for it...

I offered to do the work and I have the md5 routine here and tested on 
a number of platforms.  But as I said, I thought someone wanted to delay
it until 7.2, if that's not the case then I'll get to it.  There was also
a lack of interest in testing it, but I think we have most platforms 
covered.

Vince.
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