Re: Removing the fixed-size buffer restriction in hba.c

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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

Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org

Date: 2023-07-25T00:45:06Z

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Raise fixed token-length limit in hba.c.
- 341996248e4d 14.9 landed
- 313ceda2fe2e 15.4 landed
- 288b4288c3db 13.12 landed
- 1d031ad54d37 11.21 landed
- 0660f74e861d 12.16 landed
Eliminate fixed token-length limit in hba.c.
- de3f0e3fe0e7 16.0 landed
- 38df84c65ea4 17.0 landed

On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 08:21:54PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Yeah, I dithered about that.  I felt like removing it only to put it
> back later would be silly, but then again maybe there won't ever be
> a need to put it back.  I'm OK with removing it if there's not
> objections.

Seeing what this code does, the odds of needing an err_msg seem rather
low to me, so I would just remove it for now for the sake of clarity.
It can always be added later if need be.
--
Michael