Il ven, 2002-01-18 alle 18:23, Tom Lane ha scritto:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > As of 7.2 we are only going to recommend crypt for backward
> > compatibility with older releases. I will add a mention in libpq docs
> > that crypt authentication is not thread-safe. Even when crypt did work
> > it wasn't always portable between OS's. Is that how we want to go?
>=20
> I really think that a mention in the docs (in the part where libpq
> re-entrancy is discussed) is sufficient. Especially given how close
> we are to 7.2 release. I would not favor adding a configure check
> now, even if Federico had the patch ready to go...
agreed. i'll add a configure-time switch to psycopg and a big warning in
the README. the time to write a (already deprecated) patch is better
spent coding something else.
thank you for your assistance,
federico
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Federico Di Gregorio
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