Re: authtype parameter in libpq

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-03-08T09:57:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 04.03.21 16:06, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> authtype is completely dead in terms of reading back the value, to the point of
> it being a memleak if it indeed was found in as an environment variable.
> 
>> But I tend to think we should remove them both altogether (modulo ABI and API preservation).
> 
> No disagreement from me, the attached takes a stab at that to get an idea what
> it would look like.  PQtty is left to maintain API stability but the parameters
> are removed from the conn object as thats internal to libpq.

This looks like this right idea to me.



Commits

  1. libpq: Remove deprecated connection parameters authtype and tty

  2. From: Phil Thompson <phil@river-bank.demon.co.uk>