Re: Design Considerations for New Authentication Methods

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> ... Why would we reject a piece of useful functionality based on a 
> published standard?

Well, size and maintainability of the proposed patch are certainly
factors in any such decision.  As a closely related example, I bet
we'd have rejected the original Kerberos-support patch if we'd known
then what we know now.  It's been a constant source of bugs ever since
it went in, and with so few users of the feature, it takes a long time
to find the problems.
        regards, tom lane