From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: M.Boekhold@et.tudelft.nl
Cc: M.Boekhold@ITS.TUDelft.NL
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Cc: pgsql-patches@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: [HACKERS] User authentication bug?
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 18:40:28 -0400
Message-ID: <22433.902097628@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980802134014.5727A-100000@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl>
Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> writes:
> On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It's possible that there are still bogus length limits on username
>> or password in some of the other PostgreSQL user interfaces besides
>> psql/libpq. I will leave it to other folks to check that code.
> I think the perl-module behaves the same, but I'm not totally sure about
> it. I have a script where passing a 9 chars username to PQconnectdb()
> fails to connect to a backend, while if I truncate the username to 8
> chars it works.
Hmm. What pgsql version are you using? A quick glance at
src/interfaces/perl5 doesn't show any dependencies on username or
password length in it --- it's just a very simple wrapper for libpq.
regards, tom lane
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