On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 at 21:04, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 8:51 AM Rafia Sabih <rafia.pghack...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a doubt regarding the positioning of clientAuthentication hook > > in function ClientAuthentication. Particularly, in case of hba errors, > > i.e. cases uaReject or uaImplicitReject it errors out, leading to no > > calls to any functions attached to the authentication hook. Can't we > > process the hook function first and then error out...? > > Maybe. One potential problem is that if the hook errors out, the > original error would be lost and only the error thrown by the hook > would be logged or visible to the client. Whether or not that's a > problem depends, I suppose, on what you're trying to do with the hook.
Thanks Robert for this quick clarification. -- Regards, Rafia Sabih
