Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kCoUR-0008Eo-M8 for pgsql-admin@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:25:11 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kCoUQ-00021U-KH for pgsql-admin@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:25:10 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kCoUQ-00021M-Ca for pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:25:10 +0000 Received: from tamriel.snowman.net ([2001:470:e38f::11]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kCoUO-0003k7-5A for pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:25:10 +0000 Received: by tamriel.snowman.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2676E5F79F; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:25:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:25:06 -0400 From: Stephen Frost To: Tom Lane Cc: Nicholas Chammas , pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Re: Amazon RDS auth tokens in .pgpass Message-ID: <20200831182505.GU29590@tamriel.snowman.net> References: <4119486.1598897040@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20200831181648.GT29590@tamriel.snowman.net> <4123590.1598898063@sss.pgh.pa.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Xz665lxptj/oGFQT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4123590.1598898063@sss.pgh.pa.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk --Xz665lxptj/oGFQT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Greetings, * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > Stephen Frost writes: > > My memory might be faulty, but I've got some specific recollection of > > people complaining about this before and the community response being > > "who would ever need such very long things?!" >=20 > Yeah, so I guessed wrong ;-). Never too late to absorb new facts though. Sure. :) > That thread does point out that passwordFromFile() is far from the > only place that assumes passwords aren't going to be longer than > what would be sane to enter manually. I wonder whether we need to > worry about the other bottlenecks. Well, as I said in that thread two years ago, seems like we should make it work everywhere and be consistent between frontend and backend regarding what's supported. Perhaps even clearly document what the limit is too... Thanks, Stephen --Xz665lxptj/oGFQT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJfTUCBAAoJEO1sijiDR2RVbY0P/ijKGVu3LLpOoSOwoQRhoTjf tTrThHloTwgrBODFAdOxtXvwHFlBp0qCpgL7RrDB1NZ6Xd03j7apSeE9QmGfh12D RmN5chGEujafZs80tzh6zhP7TSf3bo1P9MdEi7nVBwsLZBLdkKU2JSBoSxlclFli gPowWsMinDCoQb6SadCswxwTuo5orovGteETyX3kbMF6KRJbeeUTWE4bVHVW+E2G 4FlvFJk+YILs9uFzi5q0OHvYJBMnPF11NxVOBjIJ6Wk2wSVT4aTGEG7xMb6e6YUf RciVyuoPN4jD6w88kjZTQNQP69IVJaJ55/NeJEMCNBrKIJa+0mPRfDARsGjydwSB 8LsXXTGupZRMZXlkM1HYCJqzE/NyLjquoTxSdEaqM7OyR7zouvWDBYawcOgknCbk 99MSJo9yBBRVn9ZQSGIIleVvRt1Py1WSOh2K6g0FjprSLyqGOxVeuGtj5nmTSbax Ohk0yH5TlQPba6KhmsC0sXF3/FWfXZuzyDrn76SAdLD6PbqYvuNsDRaHl6hM6pfc ePxJAIGtJKtCld33pdMXwtl4l2oaALDC1VYXu6+hmWrc+d1AfErq55DdntDUqG2l /rZzIxgOjrbJ1a4P5zB2WjvZ9OxyKRqUuLG71qRaFrO7fG10Ca3Hp8+Ny4lbl6ue +sDFXmtZq69uIkBeLeHx =zrxR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Xz665lxptj/oGFQT--