Greetings, * Bossart, Nathan (bossa...@amazon.com) wrote: > On 10/12/18, 4:04 PM, "Isaac Morland" <isaac.morl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I agree there should be a specific limit that is the same in libpq, > > on the server, and in the protocol. Maybe 128 characters, to get a > > nice round number? This is still way longer than the 32-byte SHA 256 > > hash. Or 64, which is still plenty but doesn't involve extending the > > current character buffer size to a longer value while still hugely > > exceeding the amount of information in the hash. > > My main motivation for suggesting the increase to 8k is to provide > flexibility for alternative authentication methods like LDAP, RADIUS, > PAM, and BSD.
Specific use-cases here would be better than hand-waving at "these other things." Last I checked, all of those work with what we've got today and I don't recall hearing complaints about them not working due to this limit. Thanks! Stephen
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