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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Lakhin <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Should rolpassword be toastable?
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:31:15 -0400
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Nathan Bossart <[email protected]> writes:
> Hm.  It does seem like there's little point in giving pg_authid a TOAST
> table, as rolpassword is the only varlena column, and it obviously has
> problems.  But wouldn't removing it just trade one unhelpful internal error
> when trying to log in for another when trying to add a really long password
> hash (which hopefully nobody is really trying to do in practice)?  I wonder
> if we could make this a little more user-friendly.

We could put an arbitrary limit (say, half of BLCKSZ) on the length of
passwords.

			regards, tom lane

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